Your Unemployed Daughter

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The Unemployment Reading List (aka, What I Read This Summer)

The Angel of Darkness, by Caleb Carr
Job of main character(s): psychiatrist/psychologist (alienist); houseboy, former hoodlum, mystery-solver

Cork Boat, by John Pollock
Job of main character(s): political speechwriter, unemployed, boat builder, dreamer

And Then We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris
Job of main character(s): employees at ad agency; unemployed

Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
Job of main character(s): detective, Tourette’s sufferer, misfit

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, by David Von Drehle
Job of main character(s): Triangle shirtwaist factory workers, reformers, politicians, suffragists

Audrey Hepburn, by Barry Paris.
Job of main character(s): Audrey Hepburn

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