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你有没有想过，办公室的夜间清洁工对于你的生活有多了解？
在这本黑色幽默的社会讽刺小说里，故事探讨的主题包括隔绝、社会隐形人以及权力。书中的主角是一名夜间清洁工，在一栋办公大楼里工作。在所有人都下班回家后，她才开始她的工作日。她知道所有人的小秘密：他们的坏习惯、最内心的渴望，甚至他们的邮箱密码！她手中的权力是她的秘密，完全没有人能察觉。她能够帮助她最喜欢的员工留下贴心的点心，在她讨厌的员工桌上的植物里加盐故意害死，更会在公司电脑里的网页搜索栏里打入建议，帮助公司创造更好的主意。她是办公室的守护天使，只是没有人知道！
有一天，当她在查看电脑里的邮件时，她发现这家公司正在挣扎，是公司CEO的问题。公司倒了她也就失业了，她绝对不能允许。她知道只有她一个人能拯救公司。但拯救过程中，她似乎迷失了自己。
‘I clean the offices and bathrooms and lobby five nights a week, but my actual job is to take care of everyone. They need so much help.’
关于作者：
Brandi Wells is the author of a novella, This Boring Apocalypse (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2015) and several short stories published in Puerto Del Sol, Mid-American Review, Tri-Quarterly and more, as well as in her own collection Please Don't Be Upset With Me (Tiny Hardcore Press, 2011). She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama, and she is currently a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. She lives in LA, but is originally from a rural town in Georgia.
来自阿歇特公司内部的好评：
Ella Gordon, Editorial Director, Wildfire:
“God, I love this book. Brandi's writing is razor-sharp, so funny and clever. In the wrong hands this story could have felt a little bleak, set as it is in a corporate office environment in the middle of the night. But instead, Brandi has gifted us a protagonist who sincerely believes in her mission to help her "colleagues", and who is more full of heart and warmth than even she realises. What I admire most of all about Brandi is her ability to capture, with great wit and perceptiveness, a mood that I think many in our current era will relate to – the erroneous belief that the capitalist system is a meritocracy, and if we just work hard enough all our dreams will come true. She renders on the page so beautifully that exhaustion: the despair of putting everything you have into a machine that gives little in return.”
Rebecca Folland, Group Rights Director, Hachette UK:
“Wow, I just loved this, the ideal companion for a long train journey as I'd have been very annoyed if someone had tried to drag me away from it. This is such a funny, precise, knowing and incredibly moving read and anyone working in an office will find themselves feeling somehow 'seen' I'm sure!”
Fern McCauley, Head of Media Development, Hachette UK:
“I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this. Hilarious, painfully insightful, and unexpectedly moving.”