There's No Such Thing As an Easy Job

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Kikuko Tsumura: There's No Such Thing As an Easy Job (2021, Bloomsbury Publishing USA)

416 pages

English language

Published April 2, 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

ISBN:
978-1-63557-691-7
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4 stars (2 reviews)

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Not everyone's cup of tea, perhaps, but it was mine!

4 stars

Follows the narrator through five short-term contract jobs, specifically chosen to be undemanding after she quit her career through burnout. Apart from the stories being genuinely quite charming, I think they also offer an interesting reflection of the nature of our relationship with work and with colleagues. The writing style felt somehow a little flat, though I thought that could be read as portraying the narrator's likely mood. Anyway, I really enjoyed it and I'm only sorry there don't seem to be any more of the author's books available in English.