The bleakly hilarious Meryem El Mehdati's <i>Checking Out</i> renders a satire of youth, work, and ordinary life <b>so biting and refreshingly honest </b>that the real world feels just a little more ridiculous by comparison. <b>I tore through this book</b>

- Jinwoo Chong, author of <i>Flux</i>,

'So biting and refreshingly honest that the real world feels just a little more ridiculous by comparison'
Jinwoo Chong, author of Flux

'Honest, intelligent and funny'
Andrea Abreu, author of Dogs of Summer

Life is like a supermarket.

Her name is Meryem, but you'd be surprised at how difficult people find that to spell. Meryem is twenty-five years old and has just started working at the offices of Supersaurio: the most important supermarket chain in the Canary Islands. Watched over by the chain's benevolent blue dinosaur logo, Meryem contends with co-workers who don't mean to sound sexist, but aren't women just harder work than men?, a boss who seems determined to make Meryem's life as miserable as possible, and Omar - smart, funny, very-senior-but-nevertheless-seems-like-a-normal-person Omar, who also happens to be devastatingly handsome.

We follow Meryem as she makes the transition from intern, to temp, to arrive finally at the promised land of fixed employment - only to find that she might have left part of her soul behind.

'My relationship with this book has been a bit like the friendships you make in the bathrooms of nightclubs. Meryem, I don't know you but I love you as if you were my lifelong friend'
Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'I want to meet Meryem for lunch'
Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'Down with work'
Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

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For fans of Joshua Ferris and Halle Butler's The New Me, a sharp and witty coming-of-age story, and a meditation on job insecurity and racism.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781399734011
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Hodder & Stoughton
Vekt
420 gr
Høyde
218 mm
Bredde
142 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter
Oversetter

Biografisk notat

Meryem El Mehdati (Rabat, 1991) studied Translation and Interpretation. She has been a private tutor, secretary, shop assistant, nanny, assistant director and internal comms specialist. Her debut novel Supersaurus was originally published in Spanish by Blackie Books in 2022. She has contributed to Vogue, SModa, La Provincia, El Salto and Igluu Magazine.