Janice Harayda
1 min readMar 13, 2023

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Thanks, Josh. The workplace novel I keep hearing about is And Then We Came to the End (about the last days of company). I haven't read it, but it's been so well reviewed it's been on my TBR list forever.

A workplace novel I did read and like a lot (as did millions of others) was Alison Pearson's I Don't Know. How She Does It, a blisteringly caustic and funny account of a working mother in London and how hard companies make it to be a high-powered female executive with children. You could almost call it the book McInerney would have written if he'd been a working mother trying to "have it all" in a sexist office.

Here's more on And Then We Came to the End from Kirkus Reviews, which tends to be tougher than other pubs (I've reviewed a lot for it but didn't do this book): https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/joshua-ferris/then-we-came-to-the-end/

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Janice Harayda
Janice Harayda

Written by Janice Harayda

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.

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