Temporary

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 and profound, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work, even when the work is only temporary.

Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 03/03/2020
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781566895668


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/18/2019
Booklist 02/01/2020 pg. 25
Library Journal 03/01/2020 pg. 84
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2020

About the Author

Hilary Leichter is author of the novel Temporary. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the New Yorker, Harper's, n+1, Bookforum, Conjunctions, the Cut, and American Short Fiction. She teaches at Columbia University.