Authors: Meryem El Mehdati & Julia SanchesModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Fiction in translationPublished on 8th May 2025 by Hodder & Stoughton (Sceptre) in the United Kingdom.Hardback | 320 pages, N/A 222mm x 144mm x 31mm | 424g 'So biting and refreshingly honest that the real world feels just a little more ridiculous by comparison'Jinwoo Chong, author of Flux'Honest, intelligent and funny'Andrea Abreu, author of Dogs of SummerLife is like a supermarket.Her name is Meryem, but you'd be surprised at how difficult people find that to spell. Meryem is twenty-five years old and has just started working at the offices of Supersaurio: the most important supermarket chain in the Canary Islands. Watched over by the chain's benevolent blue dinosaur logo, Meryem contends with co-workers who don't mean to sound sexist, but aren't women just harder work than men?, a boss who seems determined to make Meryem's life as miserable as possible, and Omar - smart, funny, very-senior-but-nevertheless-seems-like-a-normal-person Omar, who also happens to be devastatingly handsome.We follow Meryem as she makes the transition from intern, to temp, to arrive finally at the promised land of fixed employment - only to find that she might have left part of her soul behind. 'My relationship with this book has been a bit like the friendships you make in the bathrooms of nightclubs. Meryem, I don't know you but I love you as if you were my lifelong friend' Goodreads reviewer, ? ? ? ? ?'I want to meet Meryem for lunch'Goodreads reviewer, ? ? ? ? ?'Down with work'Goodreads reviewer, ? ? ? ? ?
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