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Help Wanted
Help Wanted | Adelle Waldman
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'Help Wanted is like a great nineteenth-century novel about now, at once an effervescent workplace comedy and an exploration of the psychic toll exacted by the labour market' Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot At a superstore in a small (…more)
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squirrelbrain
Help Wanted | Adelle Waldman
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I didn‘t read the blurb properly on this #ToB longlister and was expecting a wacky, unrealistic, maybe horror-based, attempt by a logistics team at Town Square (aka Walmart)to get their disliked manager promoted away from them.

Instead, the author plays it ‘straight‘, which is a good thing - I really felt I got to know and care for the characters and you really see the impact of corporate decisions on the economically disadvantaged.

sarahbarnes The blurb from Elif Batuman makes me want to read this one! 2d
Deblovestoread Your reviews are helping take the guess work out of the long list 🥰 1d
BarbaraBB I just got a copy of this one too! 1d
squirrelbrain I think you‘ll both really like it! @sarahbarnes @BarbaraBB 1d
squirrelbrain Oh, the pressure! 🤪 @Deblovestoread (edited) 1d
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Bookwormjillk
Help Wanted | Adelle Waldman
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Yet another book from the #TOBLonglist that I think should have been on the shortlist.

This was my first read of the year, and I loved it! It seemed so true to me- working a job with very little power doing what you can to create any change at all. Highly recommend.

Lcsmcat Sounds interesting! 4d
BarbaraBB Really want to read this one too! 4d
ChaoticMissAdventures I just got this from the library! It sounds so good. 4d
squirrelbrain I just finished this! Hopefully I‘ll post my review tomorrow if I get chance - I really liked it too. 3d
bthegood sounds good - stacked! 🙂 3d
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Hooked_on_books
Help Wanted | Adelle Waldman
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Adelle Waldman is so very clever. She lures the reader in with a story that seems to be a bit of a madcap workplace comedy in a big box store. And once she has you hooked, she reveals that it‘s actually a critique of modern American capitalism and how badly it hurts people and communities. This is fantastic. #TOBlonglist

Leftcoastzen 🐶👏 4w
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Floresj
Help Wanted | Adelle Waldman
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This book was like every job I‘ve ever had in which we had a. A common enemy (boss), B. A plot to band together to promote/fire someone…seemingly like we had control but not really, and C. a bonding of unlikely colleagues who talk deeply at work then just fade away after that job ends. Loved it.

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HeyT
Help Wanted | Adelle Waldman
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It was billed to be funny like the tv show Superstore but it made me feel more sad than I wanted. I did skim the ending to see what happened but just couldn't get past how depressing it seemed. Also there was a weird sort of POV shifting with the narration.

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HeyT
Help Wanted | Adelle Waldman
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Taking advantage of a brief respite from the heat to do some porch/sideyard reading. Rolo approves.

ShelleyBooksie Rolo ♡ 6mo
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rachelsbrittain
Help Wanted | Adelle Waldman
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A fellow Rioter compared this book to Superstore, and it's an appropriate comp for this compelling read. A group of warehouse logistics employees (now referred to as "movement") scheme when they learn highers ups are interviewing them to potentially promote their incompetent manager. The insights into their circumstances and reasons for wanting to see her promoted are intricately untagled. Slice of life corporate capitalism, if that's a thing.

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GerardtheBookworm
Help Wanted | Adelle Waldman
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As someone who has been a retail slave of the big box discount stores, this fictionalized novel of struggling employees dealing with corporate greed, wage survival, difficult managers, and a changing consumer base will trigger and connect with readers. The similarities between the TV show Superstore is uncanny, but this is a more realistic and sad portrayal of the poverty and working class who rely heavily on these companies.