288 pages
English language
Published Jan. 24, 2012 by Akashic Books.
Odile is a lovely twenty-three-year-old art-school dropout, a minor vandal, and a hopeless dreamer. Jack is a twenty-five-year-old shirker who's most happy capturing the endless noises of the city on his out-of-date tape recorder. Together they decide to start their own art movement in defiance of a contemporary culture made dull by both the tedious and the obvious. Set in February 1999, just before the end of one world and the beginning of another, Office girl is the story of two people caught between the uncertainty of their futures and the all-too-brief moments of modern life.
I sort of liked this simply because the self-indulgent, self-involved characters amused me. Probably not for the right reason, though. I also agree that I may have enjoyed this more if I was actually 23 again. Or perhaps not. It was incredibly emo.
