There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job Binding:Paperback but when at the age

but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of "Smile Mart

Said's need to be written and read in the hope that understanding will provide a better chance of survival

A Best Book of the Year: NPR - Kirkus - Marie Claire - PopSugar - New York Public Library - Bustle - Reader's Digest - Literary Hub A Best Book of the Summer: Harper's Bazaar - Oprah Daily - Shondaland - The Los Angeles Times - CBS News - PureWow - Good Housekeeping - BuzzFeed - theSkimmA Best Romance of 2021: The Washington Post - USA Today - Vulture - Goodreads - BookPage - BuzzFeed - Happy Mag

But when Meilin discovers her husband-to-be is another violent

she makes a fateful decision

There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job Binding:Paperback but when at the age"[A] 21st century response to Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'" NPR "A thought provoking, drily funny critique of capitalism and the systems of self worth that are built around it." TIME, "Must Read Books of the Year" A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and ideally, very little thinking. Her first gig watching the