Checking Out

<p><b>'So biting and refreshingly honest that the real world feels just a little more ridiculous by comparison'</b><br><b>Jinwoo Chong, author of <i>Flux</i></b><br><br><b>'Honest, intelligent and funny'</b><br><b>Andrea Abreu, author of <i>Dogs of Summer</i></b><br><br><b><i>Life is like a supermarket.</i></b><br><br>Her name is Meryem, but you'd be surprised at how difficult people find that to spell. Meryem is twenty-five years old and has just started working at the offices of Supersaurio: the most important supermarket chain in the Canary Islands. Watched over by the chain's benevolent blue dinosaur logo, Meryem contends with co-workers <i>who don't mean to sound sexist, but aren't women just harder work than men?</i>, a boss who seems determined to make Meryem's life as miserable as possible, and Omar - smart, funny, very-senior-but-nevertheless-seems-like-a-normal-person Omar, who also happens to be devastatingly handsome.<br><br>We follow Meryem as she makes the transition from intern, to temp, to arrive finally at the promised land of fixed employment - only to find that she might have left part of her soul behind.</p>