Welcome to Litsy!

I enjoyed this more than I'd anticipated from the first few pages.

MC, Lena, has completed her PhD, but still works minimum wage in a bookshop run as an affectation by a design studio, dodging the microaggressions of a crypto-fascist manager, struggling with an eating disorder, supported by her best friend, and navigating the well-intentioned hectoring of her parents' texts.
Lena's efforts to escape wage slavery through writing classes and ⬇️

"He looks at me with the wide eyes of a toddler who's been reprimanded by his parents for not sharing his toys."
- COOP: A Novelette, by Nida Sajid

#FirstLineFridays @shybookowl

A shortish book from Hajar Press.

Lena is a minimum-wage bookseller in a boutique bookshop in the basement of a London design agency run by "upper middle-class Oxbridge types", who pay lip service to social progressiveness, while passive-aggressively maintaining their privilege.
It's choppy, narrated through little scenes and text messages, which I'm not usually a fan of, but so far (25%), it's engaging.