The New Me Condition:Well Read isolated away from friends and

isolated away from friends and colleagues

Both instructional and inspirational

A grisly murder takes place against the backdrop of political tension and Superintendent Le Fanu

and erudition with the modern diseases of nerdiness

The New Me Condition:Well Read isolated away from friends andIn a windowless office, women stand in a circle. One explains something from her real, nonwork life about the frustration and indignity of returning an item she bought online. One wears a topknot. Another checks her pedometer. Watching them all is Millie. Thirty years old and an eternal temp, she says almost nothing, almost all of the time. But then the possibility of a permanent job arises. Will it bring the new life Millie is envisioning one