In Vincent Chu’s debut, Nice Places, the well-worn pilgrimage novel is reincarnated as satire for those of us who earnestly and anxiously poll our friends every Monday: “chat, should I quit my job?” The book follows an everyman– bored and unfulfilled at his corporate job in account management – in an unnamed hometown, the inner-city belly of which he has apparently never seriously explored. After the LinkedIn theatrics ritualizing a job termination (the circumstances of which… recollections…
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