Return on Investment: a Novel

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A smart, dark, deceptively powerful novel about the uneasy intersection of love and commerce. When recent college grad Laurie hires herself out as a human breast pump, she underestimates the devotion she will inspire in new moms desperate to be relieved of the machinery of lactation. Soon, the situation at her day job goes sour, and she devises a plan to work less and earn more. A dreamer at best and a steam-roller at worst, Laurie sets out to prove that there are better ways to make a living than holding down an office job.Her second scheme draws a young housekeeper, a male bachelorette party babysitter, and a data entry clerk into the business of manufactured intimacy. By the time Laurie realizes the hidden dangers of her new business, there’s no easy way out.Sharp,, insightful, and wickeldy funny, Return on Investment will appeal to fans of Maria Semple, Jess Walter, Jami Attenberg, and Lena Dunham.”Return on Investment is a coming-of-age tale unlike any I have ever read. A quartet of unlikely friends massively in debt and interminably adrift in the post-collegiate, post-recession, start-up economy. The wild scheme that joins them together somehow manages to both satirize and sympathetically explore that wobbling time between youth and adulthood. Swiftly told, at turns hilarious and poignant, Return on Investment is worth every second you put into it.” David McGlynn, author of A Door in the Ocean.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fiction Attic Press (September 7, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 172 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 099114998X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0991149988
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.39 x 8.5 inches

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