Marisa is in her s and a creative strategist at an advertising agency in Madrid. Her job is about selling things people dont need to people who dont want them, and she can see right through it to the late-capitalist mess were in.But what to do with this knowledge, other than hide in the basement of the Prado, arm herself with tranquilisers and irony, name her spiralling anxiety Berto after a failed lover, and wonder whether everyone else cries when their alarm wakes them in the morning?Over the course of one hot summer, Marisa moves between her apartment terrace, her office, and her companys retreat in the mountains, as the clock ticks down towards a horrifying team-building weekend.Life cant go on like this can it?Marisa is bitter but also funny and curious, she loves culture and people just not like this. This is a book for everyone who has ever wanted more: more time, more meaning, more connection.
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