On the Clock Sheilla Jones Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza

Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love

A virtuosic new novel from Alice McDermott

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Exploring the midnight sun by kayak during a rare calm in the turbulent Arctic Ocean

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On the Clock Sheilla Jones Florentino Ariza and Fermina DazaClaire 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