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‘This book has made me feel held and less alone in this world’
Reader review,

‘A bit like the friendships you make in the bathrooms of nightclubs. Meryem, I don’t know you but I love you as if you were my lifelong friend’
Reader review,

‘Down with work’
Reader review,

Meryem is twenty-five years old, drinks too much coffee, goes on dates with disappointing men and never says what she really thinks. She has just started her first job, in the head office of Supersaurio: the most important supermarket chain in the Canary Islands. As she makes the transition from intern, to temp, to arrive at the promised land of fixed employment – Meryem must contend with sexism, racism, job insecurity, and learn how to survive without losing your soul.

‘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

Publisher Review

The bleakly hilarious Meryem El Mehdati’s Checking Out renders a satire of youth, work, and ordinary life so biting and refreshingly honest that the real world feels just a little more ridiculous by comparison. I tore through this book — Jinwoo Chong, author of Flux