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"The novel is a magical-realist office drama infused with millennial anomie, and McGhee's canny, often bittersweetly hilarious prose reads as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers' room."
-Rafael Frumkin, Washington Post

"This laugh-out-loud debut is a wildly imaginative, tender and piercing critique of the squeeze of capitalism."
-Xochitl Gonzalez,…

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1 author picked Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Molly McGhee’s debut novel centers around a wayward young man who accepts a new job auditing the dreams of unsuspecting middle class workers.

I found it crushing and poignant—all things one would expect from a workplace novel that hits far too close to home—but more surprisingly, I found it immensely funny. We spend a great deal of our lives faced with a choice between laughing and crying about the state of our existence. I choose the former. 

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