On the Clock Sheilla Jones A virtuosic new novel from

A virtuosic new novel from Alice McDermott

Thanks to the unicorns and magic wands

and a chance encounter with an old friend helps to reignite the spark of his passion and ambition

Filled with soft

On the Clock Sheilla Jones A virtuosic new novel fromClaire Baglin's On the Clock packs a family saga, a penetrating picture of social inequality, and a coming of age story into a compact tale told in two alternating strands. The first follows the 20 year old narrator's summer job at a fast food franchise and the other shows us moments from her childhood with her family, with a particular focus on her hapless, infuriating, good hearted father, a low paid but devoted electrician in a factory with an