Shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Shortlisted for the 2021 Firecracker Award for Fiction She has taught fiction at Columbia University and has been awarded fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Hilary Leichter’s writing has appeared in n+1, the New Yorker, the Cut, the Southern Review, and elsewhere. This riveting quest, at once hilarious and profound, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work, even when the work is only temporary.
Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.” She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world.
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