There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

This novel – translated from Japanese by Polly Barton – came at a pertinent time. Published in 2020, it is about an unnamed thirtysomething woman who walks into an employment agency and asks for a job that involves minimal thinking. The book took a close look at the workplace and its role in our lives at the exact moment that many had just left it behind and were settling into Zoom calls and elasticated waistbands.