THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From a dazzling new international voice an
audacious darkly funny novel about a young woman whose carefully crafted office persona
threatens to crack when she’s forced to attend her company’s annual retreat "A wry work of
spectacular wit. . . . Beatriz Serrano writes with a caustic flare for detail exploring the
small humiliations of the everyday corporate office with charm and utter hilarity. Absolutely
brilliant." —Danya Kukafka author of Notes on an Execution On the surface Marisa's life
looks enviable. She lives in a beautiful apartment in the center of Madrid she has a hot
neighbor who is always around to sleep with her and she’s quickly risen through the ranks at a
successful advertising agency. And yet she’s drowning in a dark hole of existential dread
induced by the banality of corporate life. Marisa hates her job and everyone at it. She spends
her working hours locked in her office hiding from her coworkers bingeing YouTube videos and
getting high on tranquilizers. When she has the time she escapes to her favorite museum where
she contemplates the meaning of life while staring at Hieronymus Bosch paintings or trying to
get hit by a car so she can go on disability. But Marisa's dubious success which is largely
built on lies and work she's stolen from other people is in danger of being exposed when she's
forced to go on her company’s team-building retreat. Isolated in the Segovia forests haunted
by the deeply buried memory of a former coworker and surrounded by psychopathic bosses
overzealous coworkers flirty retreat staff and an excess of drugs Marisa finds herself
acting on her wildest impulses and is pushed to the brink of a complete spiral.
