Checking Out - Meryem El Mehdati

''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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