Author(s): McGhee, Molly
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 13/02/2025,
Pagination: 368 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780008589172,
Description:

Trippy, incisive, riotously funny ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN

[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ‘ HALLE BUTLER

‘A stunner NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH

Luminous as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers room WASHINGTON POST

A work place novel. A love story. A dream you cant wake from

Jonathan Abernathy is a loser. Unemployed and behind on his student loan repayments, the only thing Abernathy has in abundance is debt.

When a secretive government loan forgiveness programme offers him a job he can literally do in his sleep, Abernathy thinks hes found his big break. He finds himself entering the dreams of white-collar workers to audit them flagging their anxieties for removal at night so they’ll be more productive in the day.

But as the lines between life and work, right and wrong, and even sleep and consciousness blur, Abernathy begins to wonder just how much he might have signed away

Wildly imaginative, laced with black humour and full of close-to-the-bone truths, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is the cult workplace novel thats like nothing else you’ve read before.

Surrealist A scathing critique of capitalism

TIME

‘Imagine the movie Inception, but populated by the middle-management workers in David Graebers book Bullshit Jobs’

NEW YORK TIMES

‘An excitingly original writer, inventing much needed and killingly funny satires for contemporary work and dreams of success’ HOLLY PESTER

A revelation HILARY LEICHTER

An original mind brimming over with invention BEN MARCUS

An exuberant, poignant, freewheeling debut very funny JEFF VANDERMEER

The spiritual sibling of Severance, but creepier

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