From Our Shelves, the Boulder Book Store fiction book club, will be reading and discussing Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman in June.

This book club will be held IN STORE at the table in the Upper North Room.

From Our Shelves Fiction Book Club is free and open to the public and meets at 7:00pm, usually on the fourth Wednesday of the month.

More information here.

Help Wanted

One of Barack Obama’s recommended books for Summer 2024 • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An Economist, VOGUE and Vulture Best Book of the Year So Far • People’s Book of the Week • One of New York Magazine’s “23 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2024.” • One of ELLE’s Best (and Most Anticipated) Fiction Books of 2024 • A LitHub and Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of 2024 • One of Lilith’s “21 Books We Want to Read in 2024.” • One of Time Magazine’s “13 Books You Should Read in March.” • One of The Washington Post’s “10 Noteworthy books for March.” • One of The Week’s “5 Thought-Provoking Books to Read in March.”

Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, they empty the day’s truck of merchandise, stock the shelves, and scatter before the store opens and customers arrive. Their lives follow a familiar if grueling routine, but their real problem is that Town Square doesn’t schedule them for enough hours?most of them are barely getting by, even while working second or third jobs. When store manager Big Will announces he is leaving, the members of Movement spot an opportunity. If they play their cards right, one of them just might land a management job, with all the stability and possibility for advancement that that implies. The members of Team Movement?including a comedy-obsessed oddball who acts half his age, a young woman clinging on to her “cool kid” status from high school, and a college football hopeful trying to find a new path?band together to set a just-so-crazy-it-might-work plot in motion.

Adelle Waldman’s debut novel was a breakout sensation, lauded by the Los Angeles Times as an “exacting character study” with “excellent and witty prose” and described as “incisive and very funny” by the Economist and “brilliant” by both NPR’s Fresh Air and the Washington Post. In her long-awaited follow-up, Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and astute social observation to the world of modern, low-wage work. A humane and darkly comic workplace caper that shines a light on the odds low-wage workers are up against in today’s economy, Help Wanted is a funny, moving tale of ordinary people trying to make a living.