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Also by Ed Park:

Same Bed Different Dreams, November 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Personal Days, May 2008
Paperback

PERSONAL DAYS
By: Ed Park

Random House Trade Paperbacks
May 2008
On Sale: May 13, 2008
254 pages
ISBN: 0812978579
EAN: 9780812978575
Paperback
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Fiction

In an unnamed New York-based company, the employees are getting restless as everything around them unravels.

There’s Pru, the former grad student turned spreadsheet drone; Laars, the hysteric whose work anxiety stalks him in his tooth-grinding dreams; and Jack II, who distributes unwanted backrubs–aka “jackrubs”–to his co-workers.

On a Sunday, one of them is called at home. And the Firings begin.

Rich with Orwellian doublespeak, filled with sabotage and romance, this astonishing literary debut is at once a comic delight and a narrative tour de force. It’s a novel for anyone who has ever worked in an office and wondered: “Where does the time go? Where does the life go? And whose banana is in the fridge?

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