Every night, she cleans. On the fourth floor of an unnamed office in an unnamed city, the night cleaner comes and does what she does best--sorts out the messes of the daytime employees. She's the office mastermind, the one everyone needs, and no one even knows she exists. And tonight, while scrolling through your emails, she'll discover the secret you've been hiding--the one that will put everyone's job at risk.
Darkly humorous and sharply observed ... Wells has brilliantly crafted an obnoxiously opinionated, delusional, yet sympathetic raconteur, tightly holding the reader’s attention while exposing existential dread gleaned from petty human drama. And it’s so inappropriately fun to read.
Wells is a keen observer of the mundane indignities and petty dramas of office life. Rarely has cubicle culture been depicted in such griminess or with such glee.
Reminiscent of Ottessa Moshfegh’s work in its excavations of a troubled woman’s descent into more and more uncomfortable behavior, this novel is a suspenseful, though slow-paced, examination of one woman’s delusion.
