The Assistants - Camille Perri
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Jorjeana Marie
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Adults, Contemporary
A wry and astute debut about a young Manhattanite whose embezzlement scam turns her into an unlikely advocate for the leagues of overeducated and underpaid assistants across the city. Tina Fontana is the hapless but brazen 30-year-old executive assistant to Robert Barlow, the all-powerful and commanding CEO of Titan Corp., a multinational media conglomerate. Shes excellent at her job and beloved by her famous boss - but after six years of making his reservations for restaurants shed never get into on her own and pouring his drinks from bottles that cost more than her rent, shes bored, broke, and just a bit over it all. When a technical error with Roberts travel-and-expenses report presents Tina with the opportunity to pay off the entire balance of her student loan debt with what would essentially be pocket change for her boss, she struggles with the decision: Shes always played by the rules. But its such a relatively small amount of money for the Titan Corporation - and for her it woul
