A review by booitsnathalie
Temporary by Hilary Leichter

adventurous medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

A curious magical realism novel about the anxiety of temp work that gets too caught up in its fiction to construct a coherent theme. There’s definitely something here about how living under capitalism puts you in a constant state of precariousness you are then left to try and outrun, but it’s muddied with this strange romantic notion of being middle class and eventually a girlboss at the end of the world. I like the whimsical prose but there’s only so many homophone jokes I can take before I’m dying for real character development.
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