The very nice box / Laura Blackett & Eve Gleichman.
Record details
- ISBN: 0358540119
- ISBN: 9780358540113
- ISBN: 0358540119 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780358540113 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780358540113
- ISBN: 0358540119
- ISBN: 9780358540113
- ISBN: 0358540119
- Physical Description: pages cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "For fans of Elinor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Severance: an offbeat, wryly funny debut novel that follows an eccentric product engineer who works for a hip furniture company where sweeping corporate change lands her under the purview of a startlingly charismatic boss who seems determined to get close to her at all costs ..."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Genre: | Humorous fiction. Suspense fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kent Library Association - Kent.
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The Very Nice Box
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The Very Nice Box
"Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman are linguistic magicians, and their sparkling debut manages to expose the hollowness of well-being jargon while exploring, with tender care and precision, how we dare to move on after unspeakable loss . . . [They have] constructed a mirrored fun house, one that leads us down different paths, each masterfully tied up at the end, yet reflecting and refracting our own quirky selves." --New York Times Book Review, An Editors' Choice "A very funny debut -- and perhaps the most original office satire of the year." --Washington Post For fans of Elinor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Severance: an offbeat, wryly funny debut novel that follows an eccentric product engineer who works for a hip furniture company where sweeping corporate change lands her under the purview of a startlingly charismatic boss who seems determined to get close to her at all costs . . . Ava Simon designs storage boxes for STÃDA, a slick Brooklyn-based furniture company. She's hard-working, obsessive, and heartbroken from a tragedy that killed her girlfriend and upended her life. It's been years since she's let anyone in. But when Ava's new boss--the young and magnetic Mat Putnam--offers Ava a ride home one afternoon, an unlikely relationship blossoms. Ava remembers how rewarding it can be to open up--and, despite her instincts, she becomes enamored. But Mat isn't who he claims to be, and the romance takes a sharp turn. The Very Nice Box is a funny, suspenseful debut--with a shocking twist. It's at once a send-up of male entitlement and a big-hearted account of grief, friendship, and trust.