Clock in for a night shift - and for a moving multi-perspective novel about an exploited workforce that will be a major event in American letters

* A NEW YORK TIMES Book Review Editors' Choice * A VOGUE, VULTURE, ELLE, NEW YORKER and ECONOMIST Best Book of the Year * A TIME Must-Read Book * A GUARDIAN Summer Read *

'Superb' GUARDIAN

'Poignant, funny, stealthily ambitious' THE NEW YORK TIMES

Tightly plotted, slyly caustic and often very funny' DAILY MAIL

When the store manager at an upstate New York superstore announces he's leaving, the motley crew members of Team Movement take the news surprisingly well. Overworked and exhausted, they spend their early morning shifts scheming about their jobs and their futures. Now is their only chance to get their hated line manager Meredith promoted up and away from them. And then one of them can replace her - but who will it be?

'Help Wanted is like a great nineteenth-century novel about now' ELIF BATUMAN, author of The Idiot

'Help Wanted held me from its first page' TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER, author of The Long Island Compromise