There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

I’ve worked quite the variety of jobs. Looking back, an odd job always seems rather surreal as individual jobs seem to exist in their unique culture, an aspect of working life that Kikuko Tsumura deftly captures in There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job. As the narrator navigates five different jobs o......more

This book is quite odd, but I really liked it. It seemed tailored quite specifically to my tastes and preferences, as though someone had taken my heavily customised order in a book café: so you want irreverent narration, a story in which not much really happens but there are constant undercurrents o......more

A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing – and ideally, very little thinking. She's had a complete burnout after her previous job and just wants something that doesn't feel like wor......more

ain't that the truth! this book is very monotonous and sometimes pointless-feeling and often hard to read...but...and get ready to have your mind blown...i believe that to be the point! modern life and work and late stage capitalism in general are bizarre and also boring. so is this. bottom line: not fu......more

| | blog | tumblr | ko-fi | | Comparing this novel to the work of Ottessa Moshfegh or Sayaka Murata seems somewhat misleading, if a bit lazy. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job has elements that may bring to mind certain aspects of Convenience Store Woman but it has almost nothing in common with M......more