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 backrub...
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?”
“If P. G. Wodehouse worked in a modern-day office, he might have written this hilarious book.”
–Vendela Vida, author of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
“The funniest book I’ve read about the way we work now.”
–William Poundstone, author of Fortune’s Formula
“With Personal Days Ed Park joins Andy Warhol and Don DeLillo as a master of the deadpan vernacular.”
–Helen DeWitt, author of The Last Samurai
“The ideal read for anyone who has ever felt possessive about a stapler, confused by their boss’s behavior, or suspicious of the stranger who works two cubicles down.”
——Amanda Filipacchi, author of Love Creeps
"If you think Pam and Jim have it bad, try spending a day with Lizzie, Jonah, and Pru at their 'Office'-like company.
You'll laugh, cringe, and thank God you don't work there." —— Cosmopolitan
"Hysterical " –Wired
" [Park's] sardonic humor will ring true to cube monkeys everywhere.” –Fast Company
“A warm and winning fiction debut.” — Publishers Weekly
"Absolutely brilliant and lovable." –Heidi Julavits
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