Best Young Woman Job Book: A Memoir

TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FINALISTPraise for Best Young Woman Job Book"Emma Healey is working through the tension between the joys of writing for a living and the reality of navigating the gig economy and the world of publishing. But she's doing it with flare and style and an incredibly infuriating amount of skill. This is the kind of book where you'll finish a stretch and pause and think wait, how did she do that, and go back and try to piece it together for yourself." —Elamin Abdelmahmoud, author of Son of Elsewhere"For a deeper dive into what millennials mean when they talk about making a living in writing. A poetically structured memoir (and we mean that in the best way). . . . In some ways, it's a highly millennial book . . . and in other ways, it’s just a clear window into what work is like now. Perhaps most importantly, it’s also honest and funny." —The Tyee“It’s a truly Millennial tale—self-aware and clever enough to make you forget the depressing circumstances that shaped it.” —Josh O’Kane“Who suspected a Canadian poet would write the best account of life in the gig economy? . . . Healey’s forthright treatment of the central role money plays in a creative life is enormously refreshing. Instead of hand-waving the financial details that have made her career possible, she molds into her art the work she had to do in order to do the work she wanted. It’s a neat trick.” —WiredAdvance Praise for Best Young Woman Job Book“A rhythmic, funny, nostalgic and aching memoir about coming into your own and understanding your worth. You’ll see yourself in these pages in the best way possible.” —Scaachi Koul, bestselling author of One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter “Best Young Woman Job Book contains all the reasons Emma Healey will always be one of my favorite writers: no one else can break your heart and put it back together on the page like she can.”  —Haley Mlotek, writer, editor and organizer “Best Young Woman Job Book is simply brilliant, a perfect encapsulation of everything that makes Emma Healey the force of nature that she is. Equally hilarious and heartbreaking, every page is a revelation.” —Tom Scharpling, bestselling author of It Never Ends