Temporary’ Is a Debut Novel That Leans Into the Absurdity of How We Work Now

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‘Temporary’ Is a Debut Novel That Leans Into the Absurdity of How We Work Now

“Temporary” reads like a comic and mournful “Alice in Wonderland” set in the gig economy, an eerily precise portrait of ourselves in a cracked mirror. As the Red Queen told Alice, seizing her wrist and goading her on for a race: “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”