| Abstract |
Dave Griffin's North Carolina based employer callously decides to replace American computer programmers with a combination of offshore and imported labor in order to increase company profits. This is a gripping account of the desperation of people betrayed by their own country. It illumines greed and nobility, the fundamental choice between self and selflessness that makes us human. In another part of town, Joe Tremaine also struggles to survive. He's a disabled, brain damaged former FBI agent who's been dumped by his employer and is having a hard time making ends meet. His daughter, Lark, works two jobs to help, but Joe's doctor wants him to try an expensive new medication. What does he do? How far will he go to survive? This is the compelling question in L.C. Evans' story of job loss during a time where hundreds of people line up to apply for work at a fast food restaurant. Jobless Recovery was published in 2005, but the story's so timely it could have been published last week. Evans does a great job of showing us increasingly stressed and desperate people whose lives are spiraling out of control. The book's realistic, gut wrenching story of the characters' anguish disturbed me more than any horror novel ever could. |
