From "Three First Novels That Just Might Last" (TIME magazine, July 7)

THE BOOK
Personal Days by Ed Park

THE SETUP
Some office drones work at a moribund company. That's really all Park needs

WHY IT'S GOOD
Never have the minutiae of office life been so lovingly cataloged and collated

FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE ...
The Mezzanine, Then We Came to the End (a book it superficially resembles, but only superficially)

—Time