description: They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues. There's Chris Yop, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl Garbedian, secretly taking someone else's medication; Marcia Dwyer, whose hair is stuck in the eighties; and Benny, who's just - well, just Benny. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them. "Then We Came to the End" is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. It's the story of your life and mine.
language: English
title: Then We Came to the End
titlecomplete: Then We Came to the End
genres: Adult, Unfinished, Novels, Literature, Literary Fiction, Humor, Book Club, Fiction, Contemporary, Adult Fiction
ratings_count: 35078
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: Fig Tree