"Help Wanted is like a great nineteenth-century novel about now, at once an effervescent workplace comedy and a profoundly human exploration of the psychic toll exacted by the labor market. The characters are so richly drawn—so full, under all their defenses, of the desire to be loved—that even the annoying ones will win your heart. When the book came to an end, I felt bereft. Adelle Waldman is a master." - Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or

"In Help Wanted, the tragic heroes of the gig economy, full of dreams and sob stories and what-if scenarios, concoct a plot to better their lives, failing to see that late capitalism and office politics have a very different ending in store for them. Yet even as the frustrations mount and the plot goes sideways, hope never dies. Adelle Waldman delivers both a brilliant diagnosis and a moving account of retail workers hidden in plain sight all around us whose full humanity has simply never been so richly displayed or touchingly rendered." - Joshua Ferris, author of A Calling for Charlie Barnes

"Help Wanted is a serious moral inquiry, through the medium of fiction, into the lives of a group of people who work in a big-box store in an American town that has seen better days. It’s a book about work; about the retail industry in the age of Amazon; and about the effects of late capitalism on human relations. It is also hard to put down. This book should be assigned in business schools, but it won’t be; the world it depicts is not the one dreamt of in their philosophy." - Keith Gessen, author of Raising Raffi

"What a gorgeous and ingenious and heartfelt work Help Wanted is!" - Michelle Orange, author of Pure Flame

"I can’t think of a book more necessary. Adelle Waldman takes us into the universe of American labor with generosity and compassion. It has been a while since workers have been portrayed through the lens of a novelist with such insight and attention to the details of service industry life. Simply enthralling." - Gary Shteyngart, author of Our Country Friends