Riveting... thrillerlike...drolly surreal...Ultimately, The Beautiful Bureaucrat succeeds because it isnt afraid to ask the deepest questions. The New York Times Book Review, Editors ChoiceA joyride...a new species...a very beautiful, very honest book. -Karen Russell, SlateNAMED A MUST READ OF THE SUMMER by the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Bustle, The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, HelloGiggles and more...A young wifes new job pits her against the unfeeling machinations of the universe in a first novel Ursula K. Le Guin hails as funny, sad, scary, beautiful. I love it.In a windowless building in a remote part of town, the newly employed Josephine inputs an endless string of numbers into something known only as The Database. After a long period of joblessness, shes not inclined to question her fortune, but as the days inch by and the files stack up, Josephine feels increasingly anxious in her surroundings-the offices scarred pinkish walls take on a living quality, the drone of keyboards echoes eerily down the long halls.
