Temporary A Novel Hilary Leichter by Hilary Leichter 9781566895668, 9781566895743, 9782019016845, 1566895669, 156689574X, 2019016842 instant download after payment.

EIGHTEEN BOYFRIENDS, TWENTY-THREE JOBS, & ONE GHOST WHO OCCASIONALLY POPS IN TO GIVE ADVICE: TEMPORARY CASTS A HILARIOUS & TENDER EYE TOWARD THE STRUGGLE FOR HAPPINESS UNDER LATE CAPITALISM.

In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.”

This riveting quest, at once hilarious & profound, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work, even when the work is only temporary.

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Hilary Leichter is the author of the novel Temporary, which was a finalist for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize & the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Prize, & was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Temporary was a New York Times Editors’ Choice & named a best book of 2020 by NPR, Elle, Vulture, & Publishers Weekly.

Hilary’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, n+1, The New York Times, Conjunctions & elsewhere. Her work in Harper’s Magazine won the 2021 National Magazine Award in Fiction. Her new novel, Terrace Story, was published by Ecco in August 2023.