The millennial office novel is over – the blue-collar book is back

From stories about garbage men to women working in pawn shops and weed farms, a fresh wave of new books is proving that nobody wants to be (or read about) girlbosses anymore

The millennial office novel is over – the blue-collar book is back
Dominic Sessa

“Nobody writes novels about garbagemen,” writes Simon Paré-Poupart in Trash!: A Garbageman’s Story, which chronicles 20-plus years spent collecting trash in Montreal. “That doesn’t leave us much to grasp onto, save the freedom that comes with a life on the margins and, in my case, the pleasure of physical labour”.

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