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Mar 3, 2020 · 5,202ratings994reviews. Kindle $9.99. 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.
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Feb 25, 2020 · In “Temporary,” a brisk, wildly imaginative first novel by Hilary Leichter, the unnamed protagonist is a temp worker who trudges between 23 jobs. “I have a shorthand kind of career,” she ...
Mar 3, 2020 · Reviews. FICTION. shop now. bookshelf. TEMPORARY. by Hilary Leichter ‧RELEASE DATE: March 3, 2020. A dreamy meditation on how we construct who we are. bookshelf. shop now. A young temp searches for permanence in Leichter’s whimsically surreal fable of late-stage capitalism. The nameless protagonist of Leichter’s debut leads a temporary existence.
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Jan 4, 2021 · 3 minute read. Does your job make you? (Image courtesy of Coffee House Press.) Do our jobs define us as people? Published last March, Hilary Leichter’s novel Temporary follows one woman striving to find herself as she works one temporary job after another—a story especially relevant as workers face the crisis of the pandemic.
Jun 8, 2020 · by Josie Tolin. Hilary Leichter has crafted a workplace parable in her debut novel, Temporary (Coffee House Press), which follows a young, unnamed woman’s search for permanent employment, a mode of being she calls “the steadiness.”
Mar 9, 2020 · Hilary Leichter. Coffee House Press: 208 pages, $16.95. Leslie Pariseau reviews 'Temporary,' a dark fantasy of the millennial gig economy by Hilary Leichter.
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Apr 7, 2020 · ‘Temporary’ puts a whole new spin on millennial woe. Review by Rebekah Frumkin. April 8, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. EDT. “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to...
