‘Help Wanted’ uses satire to illuminate plight of low-wage workers
Much has changed in America since 2013, when Adelle Waldman published her first novel, “The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.,” a sharp-eyed comedy of manners about the singles scene among a group of writers in Brooklyn, New York. The exigencies of climate change and political and class divides have become more alarming, and the mood less frivolous.
Waldman, a reporter before she turned to fiction, has responded by shifting her attention to the
