| Break in Case of Emergency Contributor(s): Winter, Jessica (Author) |
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ISBN: 110191193X ISBN-13: 9781101911938 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Urban - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: 813.6 |
| LCCN: 2015031653 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.65 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In her early thirties, Jen has all but abandoned a once-promising painting career when she takes a poorly defined job at a feminist nonprofit. The Leora Infinitis Foundation--or LIFt--claims 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, a larger-than-life celebrity philanthropist. Stuck in this passive-aggressive hellscape, Jen struggles with insecurity, especially when she compares herself to her two best friends, Meg and Pam--one a wealthy attorney with a picture-perfect family, the other a passionately committed artist. When the personal and the professional begin to collide in the course of a fateful art exhibition, a surreal business trip, and a devastating loss, it forces Jen to reckon with some hard truths about herself and the people she loves most. |