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Break in case of emergency

Jen, a once-promising painter, takes a job at a feminist nonprofit. The foundation's aim is to empower women, but staffers spend all their time devising acronyms for imaginary programs, ruthlessly undermining one another, and stroking the ego of their boss, celebrity philanthropist Leora Infini...

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Main Author: Winter, Jessica (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2016]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Single women > Fiction.
Businesswomen > Fiction.
Feminists > Fiction.
Nonprofit organizations > Fiction.
Satire.
Summary: Jen, a once-promising painter, takes a job at a feminist nonprofit. The foundation's aim is to empower women, but staffers spend all their time devising acronyms for imaginary programs, ruthlessly undermining one another, and stroking the ego of their boss, celebrity philanthropist Leora Infinitas. Jen is already feeling inferior to her friends: a wealthy attorney with a picture-perfect family, and a passionately committed artist. On top of that, her apparent inability to have a baby only intensifies her feelings of inferiority. A series of events force Jen to reckon with some hard truths about herself and the people she loves most.
Item Description: "A novel" -- Cover.
Physical Description: 269 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN: 9781101946138
110194613X
9781101911938
110191193X
Author Notes: JESSICA WINTER is features editor at Slate and the former culture editor of Time. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Bookforum, The Believer, and many other publications. She lives in Brooklyn.

jessicawinter.net

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