A NEW YORK TIMES Book Review Editors' Choice A VOGUE VULTURE ELLE NEW YORKER and
ECONOMIST Best Book of the Year A TIME Must-Read Book of 2024 'Filled with an exceptional
cast of characters and written with a delicious acid-drop humour' i Paper Best Paperbacks Out
in 2025 'Help Wanted is like a great nineteenth-century novel about now at once an
effervescent workplace comedy and an exploration of the psychic toll exacted by the labour
market' Elif Batuman author of The Idiot ' Help Wanted held me from its first page. Waldman
transmits through narrative tension and beautifully rendered heartbreak the exact way that
capitalism turned on the very lives it was there to boost and instead corroded' Taffy
Brodesser-Akner author of The Long Island Compromise 'Poignant funny stealthily
ambitious' The New York Times 'Eliot-like ... . It is simultaneously a joke a homage and a
provocation for our unequal age. Help Wanted washes labour in a stately almost Steinbeckian
light emphasizing its difficulty but also its dignity' New Yorker Tightly plotted slyly
caustic and often very funny' Daily Mail When the store manager at an upstate New York
superstore announces he's leaving the motley crew members of Team Movement take the news
surprisingly well. Overworked and exhausted they spend their early morning shifts scheming
about their jobs and their futures. Now is their only chance to get their hated line manager
Meredith promoted up and away from them. And then one of them can replace her - but who will it
be?
