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Checking Out
- Author
- Meryem El Mehdati
- Narrator
- Sarah Agha
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 8 May 2025
- Run Time
- 8 hours 33 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Jinwoo Chong, author of Flux
'Honest, intelligent and funny'
Andrea Abreu, author of Dogs of Summer
Life is like a supermarket.
Her name is Meryem, but you'd be surprised at how difficult people find that to spell. Meryem is twenty-five years old and has just started working at the offices of Supersaurio: the most important supermarket chain in the Canary Islands. Watched over by the chain's benevolent blue dinosaur logo, Meryem contends with co-workers who don't mean to sound sexist, but aren't women just harder work than men?, a boss who seems determined to make Meryem's life as miserable as possible, and Omar - smart, funny, very-senior-but-nevertheless-seems-like-a-normal-person Omar, who also happens to be devastatingly handsome.
We follow Meryem as she makes the transition from intern, to temp, to arrive finally at the promised land of fixed employment - only to find that she might have left part of her soul behind.
Critics Review
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The bleakly hilarious Meryem El Mehdati's Checking Out renders a satire of youth, work, and ordinary life so biting and refreshingly honest that the real world feels just a little more ridiculous by comparison. I tore through this book
Jinwoo Chong, author of Flux
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Details
- Author
- Meryem El Mehdati
- Narrator
- Sarah Agha
- Duration
- 8 hours 33 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 May 2025
- ISBN
- 9781399734059
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Fiction in translation, Humorous fiction
Synopsis
'So biting and refreshingly honest that the real world feels just a little more ridiculous by comparison'Jinwoo Chong, author of Flux'Honest, intelligent and funny'Andrea Abreu, author of Dogs of SummerLife is like a supermarket.Her name is Meryem, but you'd be surprised at how difficult people find that to spell. Meryem is twenty-five years old and has just started working at the offices of Supersaurio: the most important supermarket chain in the Canary Islands. Watched over by the chain's benevolent blue dinosaur logo, Meryem contends with co-workers who don't mean to sound sexist, but aren't women just harder work than men?, a boss who seems determined to make Meryem's life as miserable as possible, and Omar - smart, funny, very-senior-but-nevertheless-seems-like-a-normal-person Omar, who also happens to be devastatingly handsome.We follow Meryem as she makes the transition from intern, to temp, to arrive finally at the promised land of fixed employment - only to find that she might have left part of her soul behind.
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