Adelle Waldman

Poignant, funny, stealthily ambitious The New York Times Eliot-like ... It is simultaneously a joke, a homage, and a provocation for our unequal age. Help Wanted washes labour in a stately, almost Steinbeckian light, emphasizing its difficulty but also its dignity New Yorker Tightly plotted, slyly caustic and often very funny Daily Mail At a superstore in a small town...

Included in Barack Obama's Summer Reading List 2024 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 An immersive, deeply affecting human drama — Bookseller, March 2024 Book of the Month At a superstore...