Work Nights, Erica Peplin
Work Nights, Erica Peplin
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Work Nights

Author: Erica Peplin

Narrator: Jennifer Pickens

Unabridged: 6 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/17/2025

Categories: Fiction, Women, Lgbtq+


Synopsis

**Longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2025 First Novel Prize**

A young queer woman finds herself in a love triangle with an unobtainable intern and a quick-tempered musician in this charming debut that combines Big Swiss with The Devil Wears Prada.

Jane Grabowski hauls herself to her nine to five office job at New York City’s most acclaimed newspaper to sit in stale air under severe florescent lights and mask her rage by sending emails with too many exclamation points.

Luckily, Jane has a reason to keep coming into the office: Madeline, the distractingly beautiful intern. Madeline has never dated a woman and is uncomfortable with labels but with carefully timed lunch breaks and painstakingly crafted texts, Jane works her way into her life. Meanwhile, Jane’s free-spirited artist roommate tries to keep her from falling for a straight girl by dragging Jane to gay bars and queer Shabbat dinners, where she meets the decidedly uncool and morally righteous musician, Addy.

Caught between Addy’s readiness to commit and Madeline’s alluring unpredictability, Jane is pulled down a slippery path of lies and deceit, leading to a plane ticket that threatens to take everything down in one fell swoop.

About Erica Peplin

Erica Peplin is a writer from Detroit, Michigan, now based in Brooklyn. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Joyland, The MillionsMcSweeney’s, The Village Voice, and more. From 2015 to 2016, she worked in the advertising department of The New York Times. Since then, she’s worked as a shipping clerk, a high school custodian, and a restaurant server. Find out more at EricaPeplin.com. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on June 21, 2025

did somebody say the devil wears prada (review to come / thanks to the publisher for the e-arc)......more

Goodreads review by Angie on April 23, 2025

It’s a Gen Z Sally Rooney kind of LitFic, set in the magazine publishing industry in NYC. This book made me laugh uncontrollably in parts- the dialogue is so sharp and ridiculously specific, and so smart. It’s big on dialogue and short on plot. Those looking for a love story or a defined conflict an......more

Goodreads review by Ryn on April 28, 2025

Emily Austen meets Jen Beagin in a lit-fic novel about Jane, a girl working a 9-5 in a job she hates while also juggling two relationships. She is meeting a girl names Madeline, who is afraid of labels and free-spirited and a girl named Addy, who is romantic and ready to settle into a committed rela......more

Goodreads review by Caroline on March 31, 2025

Work Nights is both laugh-out-loud funny and cringe-inducing in its portrayal of petty office politics and the messiness of 20-somethings queer life in Brooklyn. Jane is a fun character to view the world through because she is both relatable and the worst. Jane doesn’t necessarily feel connected to......more

Goodreads review by Cassidy on June 19, 2025

3.75 ★ "Dating is fun. Falling in love is fun. But it ends. It can't last. Nothing lasts. And when it's gone, what you're really left with is the appalling nature of your own idiotic hope. And that's just the way it is. Because no one is good enough. People mess up. Everything dies." Works Nights is a......more