Join us at Titcomb's Bookshop on Tuesday, March 30th at 6:30 PM to discuss DISCONTENT by Beatriz Serrano!About this Event
For Titcomb's Bookshop's March Branch Out Book Club, we will be reading Discontent by Beatriz Serrano, a darkly funny novel about a young woman whose carefully crafted office persona threatens to crack when she’s forced to attend her company’s annual retreat.
We will meet on Tuesday, March 30th at 6:30 PM on the upper floor of Titcomb's Bookshop. Free RSVP is requested and can be completed on this page or by calling Titcomb's Bookshop at 508-888-2331.
ABOUT THE BOOK
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE
"A wry work of spectacular wit. . . . Beatriz Serrano writes with a caustic flare for detail, exploring the small humiliations of the everyday corporate office with charm and utter hilarity. Absolutely brilliant." —Danya Kukafka, author of Notes on an Execution
On the surface, Marisa's life looks enviable. She lives in a beautiful apartment in the center of Madrid, she has a hot neighbor who is always around to sleep with her, and she’s quickly risen through the ranks at a successful advertising agency. And yet she’s drowning in a dark hole of existential dread induced by the banality of corporate life. Marisa hates her job and everyone at it. She spends her working hours locked in her office hiding from her coworkers, bingeing YouTube videos, and getting high on tranquilizers. When she has the time, she escapes to her favorite museum where she contemplates the meaning of life while staring at Hieronymus Bosch paintings, or trying to get hit by a car so she can go on disability.
But Marisa's dubious success, which is largely built on lies and work she's stolen from other people, is in danger of being exposed when she's forced to go on her company’s team-building retreat. Isolated in the Segovia forests, haunted by the deeply buried memory of a former coworker, and surrounded by psychopathic bosses, overzealous coworkers, flirty retreat staff, and an excess of drugs, Marisa finds herself acting on her wildest impulses and is pushed to the brink of a complete spiral.
ABOUT THE BRANCH OUT BOOK CLUB
Titcomb's Bookshop's Branch Out Book Club, hosted by Katie (Marketing & Communications Specialist) and Caleb (Antiquarian/Used Books Specialist), invites people to read books that may be outside of their typical reading comfort zone. From offbeat literary fiction to horror or sci-fi, we aim to expand our minds by expanding our reading choices. Each month, we will mix up the genre or theme and offer a welcoming environment for our community to read together and share thoughts and reflections.
The Branch Out Book Club will meet on the last Tuesday of every month at 6:30 PM at Titcomb's Bookshop (unless otherwise noted). Join us!
Event Venue
Titcomb's Bookshop, 432, Sandwich, United States
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