Finished reading: The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn 📚

I loved the conceit of this novel. Constructing a story through fragmentary glimpses into life on an interstellar ship via snippets of info you’re to piece together form HR exit-interviews. But this was a novel of absence, for me. All anonymous. All gestures towards something and some things in which the author’s goal seems to be to leave all signifiers empty. It basked in the vagueness of gesture, of the knowledge that those in the book would understand, but aloofly leaving the reader a fistful of straws at which to grasp.

jeff newman @bangersandmash