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Fire Me: A Tale of Scheming, Dreaming and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Fire Me A Tale of Scheming Dreaming and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places Author:Libby Malin One day, a dysfunctional office, and a budding romance. Anne Wyatt has finally had it with incompetent co-workers, a boss who runs hot and cold, and meaningless busywork with impossible deadlines. But the day she goes in determined to hand in her resignation, she learns that her boss is planning to let someone go. She changes course, deci... more »ding to try for the lay-off and the severance package that goes with it. Throughout the day, she engages in hysterical antics designed to attract her boss' negative evaluation, egged on by Ken, the handsome graphic designer in the next cubicle, who has his own ideas for liberation from the corporate grind. In the end, together Anne and Ken have to decide what is important in life, and what they need to discard without a second glance. PRAISE FOR LIBBY MALIN: "The love story is charming and will be appreciated by any woman with bad taste in men who somehow inexplicably ends up with Mr. Right."
Washington Post "A whimsical look at the vagaries of dating... an intriguing side plot adds punch and pathos to the story..."
Publishers Weekly "Malin's clever debut toys with chick-lit stereotypes and offers quite a few surprises along the way."