No one knows us quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. 

Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Joshua Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.

With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells a true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment--the one we pretend is normal five days a week.

Author: Joshua Ferris
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Page Count: 416pp
Size: 5.5 x 8.25 x 1
Notes: paperback
Date of Publication: February 26, 2008
ISBN: 978-0316016391