Checking Out

So biting and refreshingly honest that the real world feels just a little more ridiculous by comparison
Jinwoo Chong, author of Flux

Honest, intelligent and funny
Andrea Abreu, author of Dogs of Summer

Life is like a supermarket.

Her name is Meryem, but youd 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 chains benevolent blue dinosaur logo, Meryem contends with co-workers who dont mean to sound sexist, but arent women just harder work than men?, a boss who seems determined to make Meryems 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.

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.