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The Cleaner
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| Author | Brandi Wells |
|---|---|
| Genre | Literary Fiction |
| Release Date | January 30, 2024 |
| Publisher | Hanover Square |
| Tags | Queer |
Description
“So inappropriately fun to read.” –Booklist, starred review
“Welcome to the office building at night, an eerie ship helmed by one woman desperate for connection.” —Julia Fine, author of Maddalena and the Dark
Every night, she cleans. On the fourth floor of an unnamed office in an unnamed city, the night cleaner comes and does what she does best—sorts out the messes of the daytime employees. None of them know her, but she knows everything about them: Sad Intern’s dreams to get promoted, Résumé Woman’s nasty flight-risk behavior, Mr. Buff’s secret smoking habit (not very conducive to his fitness journey).
She’s the office mastermind, the one everyone needs, and no one even knows she exists. And tonight, while scrolling through your emails, she’ll discover the secret you’ve been hiding—the one that will put everyone’s job at risk.
After all, protecting the employees is her responsibility: whether it’s from rats and window smudges or from the sinister CEO who may be driving the company into ruin. And you’re about to find out that, sometimes, your most powerful enemy is the one you don’t even see.
About the Author
Brandi Wells’s debut novel, The Cleaner, will be published by Wildfire, an imprint of Headline (UK) in August 2023 and Hanover Square Press, an imprint of Harpercollins (US) in 2024.
Their novella This Boring Apocalypse was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms (2015) and was reviewed in Black Warrior Review, Atticus Review, Sundog Lit, and The Collagist. A full length chapbook of stories, Please Don’t Be Upset, was published by Tiny Hardcore Press (2011). Their fiction appears in Puerto Del Sol, Mid-American Review, Tri-Quarterly and many other journals.
They earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama, as well as a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Southern California. They’re currently an Assistant Professor of creative writing at CSU Fullerton. Represented by Kate Johnson at Wolf Literary.
