Nancy's Book Group - Help Wanted

"Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will" - Suzy Kassem.

Please join Nancy Zachary in the Scott Room to discuss Help Wanted by Adele Waldman.

"At a big-box retailer in upstate New York, a team of workers is energized by a secret plan. "'Roaches' was what other employees called the people who worked Movement, because they descended on the store in the dark of night, then scattered in the morning, when the customers arrived." Waldman’s long-awaited follow-up to The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. (2013) is set in a totally different world—bye-bye, literary Brooklyn; hello, blue-collar Potterstown, a forlorn small town with a view of the Catskills, stuck in a downward spiral ever since the local IBM plant closed. What remains the same is the author’s emotional intelligence, wry humor, and sensitivity to matters of money and class. Meanwhile, the details of daily operation and workplace culture at Town Square Store #1512 are evoked in fine and fascinating detail. ... The workplace dramedy of the year." - Kirkus.