pdotb reviewed There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the …
Not everyone's cup of tea, perhaps, but it was mine!
4 stars
Follows the narrator through five short-term contract jobs, specifically chosen to be undemanding after she quit her career through burnout. Apart from the stories being genuinely quite charming, I think they also offer an interesting reflection of the nature of our relationship with work and with colleagues. The writing style felt somehow a little flat, though I thought that could be read as portraying the narrator's likely mood. Anyway, I really enjoyed it and I'm only sorry there don't seem to be any more of the author's books available in English.