As someone who just finished doing their taxes--and had to explain to an accountant why they worked 5 taxable jobs in one tax year--I really enjoyed this book. Because of some "self-employment 1099-form" situation, I had to create a business on the spot; then I had to find an appropriate title to...
"[A] dark, satirical comedy. . . . Written with the same kind of deadpan humor Levison used so well in his first book."â��USA Today "A gleeful satire. . . . It’s an amusingly bleak little (im)moral fable."â��Detroit Free Press "Exciting, funny, poignant and sociologically important."â��The Chicag...
I figured I’d ask you,” Linda said cheerfully. She had picked him up that morning to take him to meet a restaurant manager who was looking for a sous-chef trainee, a contact she had made at the dress shop. Doug sensed she had made solving his unemployment problem a personal project, which was goo...
The irony of the restaurant industry is that no restaurants ever open up in areas of high unemployment, the logic being that these areas are economically depressed and the local populace doesn’t have the disposable income to spend on luxuries like eating out. This means that anywhere there are pe...