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作       者:Jessica Winter

出  版  社:The Borough Press

出版时间:2016-07-12

字       数:39.1万

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An irreverent and deeply moving comedy about friendship, fertility, and fighting for one’s sanity in a toxic workplace. Jen has reached her early thirties and has all but abandoned a once-promising painting career when, spurred by the 2008 economic crisis, she takes a poorly defined job at a feminist nonprofit. The foundation’s ostensible 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, the larger-than-life celebrity philanthropist Leora Infinitas. Jen’s complicity in this passive-aggressive hellscape only intensifies her feelings of inferiority compared to her two best friends—one a wealthy attorney with a picture-perfect family, the other a passionately committed artist—as does Jen’s apparent inability to have a baby, a source of existential panic that begins to affect her marriage and her already precarious status at the office. As Break in Case of Emergency unfolds, a fateful art exhibition, a surreal boondoggle adventure in Belize, and a devastating personal loss conspire to force Jen to reckon with some hard truths about herself and the people she loves most. Jessica Winter’s ferociously intelligent debut novel is a wry satire of celebrity do-goodism as well as an exploration of the difficulty of navigating friendships as they shift to accommodate marriage and family, and the unspoken tensions that can strain even the strongest bonds.
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Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Spring

Our Focus Is Focus Itself

Looking Busy

Real Jobs and Other Jobs

That

Pam

Avoidance

The Emergency Fund

Meg

Who She Is to You

Foundations

Indulge Me

Solidarity

Oof

Special Projects

Major Brainstorm Mode

The Existential Question of Why We Are Here

Zen Rand

The Project

Business

This Sex Thing

Summer

The Garden of Earthly Delights

If Your Skull Was a Club

Evidence

It’s All About the Team

Proficiency

Signal Problems

Initiative

What Is Your Excuse?

A Teachable Moment

Wild Gifts

All-Media Motivational Thingy

We Talked About Seven

Who Is “We”?

Lessons in Zen Rand

Fall

The Thing That Happened

Causation

A Lot Going On

Dolly

Who Speaks That Language?

Judy and the Really Fabulous Guy

Particularizing

Financially Is the Easiest Part

In Fact

Asleep

Gotta Run with the Plebes

The Garinagu Eco Lodge

Experience the Experience

That’s Your Reality

Furthermost, Farthermore, Everending

Flaming Tonnage

Vacation from Your Vacation

Not a Perfect System

Magic Carpet Ride

Metaphors

We Are Doing Good Here

Winter

Christmas Eve

A Tousled, Effortless Cool

The Sperm That Got Away

Summer Camp

Knight on a White Steed

Like a Newborn

What Is Charity?

Envy

Paid in Exposure

Cheese Break

Submission

Good News

Yes

Let It All Hang Out

Statement of Accounts

We’ve Met Many Times

Another Spring

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Publisher

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