num_pages: 387
description: This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented new writer. The characters in Then We Came To The End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. By day they compete for the best office furniture left behind and try to make sense of the mysterious pro-bono ad campaign that is their only remaining "work."
language: English
title: Then We Came to the End
titlecomplete: Then We Came to the End
genres: Book Club, Unfinished, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 35074
places: Chicago, Illinois
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Guardian First Book Award
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Financial Times Business Book of the Year
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
publisher: Little, Brown and Company