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02435aam a2200349 i 4500 001 CAC47EAE1D5411EE85C7632C52ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230708010026 008 220421t20222022nyu 000 f eng 010 $a 2022019775 020 $a 166260145X 020 $a 9781662601453 035 $a (OCoLC)1305439857 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d TOH $d JVK $d IUO $d GZM $d HRF $d CDX $d YDX $d IUK $d VP@ $d FHP $d OCL $d IWP $d SILO 043 $a u-at--- 100 1 $a Lau, Jamie Marina, $d 1997- 245 10 $a Gunk baby : $b a novel / $c Jamie Marina Lau. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Astra House, $c [2022] 300 $a 330 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a Originally published by Hachette Australia in 2021. 520 $a "Gunk Baby is a black comedy workplace thriller set in a sprawling indoor shopping mall about a cabal of low-wage workers who plot violent acts of "resistance" against their managers"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "In the suburb of Par Mars stand a pair of identical shopping centers, each with the same harsh, fluorescent lights, climate-controlled environment, and monotonous encounters between employees and shoppers. Reviving an ancient Chinese ritual passed down by her mother, twenty-four-year-old Leen has opened an ear-cleaning and massage studio in the Topic Heights Shopping Center. But the social fabric of Par Mars is coming loose, and a quiet unrest is growing among the mall's low-wage workers as store managers begin to fall victim to increasingly brutal and spontaneous attacks. When Leen befriends Jean Paul, a pharmacist enmeshed in a cryptic online community, she finds herself embroiled in a troubling plot to disrupt the routines of the town's banal consumer culture. With fierce intellect, sharp wit, and original prose, Jamie Marina Lau interprets and vividly portrays the everyday violence and toil of contemporary working life. Encapsulating millennial ennui and middle-class boredom, Gunk Baby is an inventive and deliberate novel from a fresh, new, exciting voice"-- $c Back cover. 650 0 $a Work environment $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Shopping malls $z Australia $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Naturopaths $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Materialism $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Suburbs $x Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011410.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CAC47EAE1D5411EE85C7632C52ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search