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Praise for There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job:
“Tsumura’s 21st-century response to Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener.’ [Barton’s translation] encourages us to imagine the voice of Tsumura’s narrator/avatar as both cheeky and self-deprecating, the perfect balance to wage a stealth feminist revolution.” ―NPR
“A revelation that plays out through Tsumura’s sharp prose and biting observations on late capitalism.” ―Time, “Best New Books”
“A quietly engrossing story.” ―Literary Hub, “Favorite Books of the Year”
“Tsumura is adept at capturing tiny reactions, such as the insecurity triggered by an offhand remark, and building them into a picture of the emotional labor of the modern workplace.” ―The New Yorker
“The unsettling genius of Tsumura’s narrator is that despite her string of tedious jobs, she comes closest to describing what a good life may actually look like: spending time searching for chestnuts and breadfruit in the forest, taking long walks around the city, gently drawing out souls who have squirreled themselves away from the world, finding the strange in the everyday.” ―The Atlantic
“Surreal and frequently hilarious.” ―Boston Globe