The Floater Sheryl Sorrentino 9781477436899 Books
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Welcome to The Great Recession, when companies are laying people off left and right, and even Big Law isn't hiring anymore. At least there's no place at Robertson, Levine & Shemke for 46-year-old Norma Reyes, a recent graduate from an unremarkable fourth-tier law school. Short on luck and desperate for a job, Norma accepts RLS's offer to work as a "floater" (i.e., rotating secretary)—a title that conjures the distasteful image of something stubbornly bobbing in the toilet no matter how many times you flush. Though Norma's only trying to stay afloat until the economy improves and she can land a job as a lawyer, RLS's shallow, self-absorbed attorneys seem hell-bent on keeping this buoyant, middle-aged staff member down.
“The Floater is the Rocky of legal dramas. Attorney and protagonist Norma Reyes--hired as an overqualified secretarial floater and forced to battle long odds in a high powered law firm--is often beaten down but never knocked out. Gritty and necessarily graphic, The Floater is a well-written and spellbinding ride through Lilly Ledbetter-glass ceilings and racial barriers. Shocking, uplifting, and enlightening, The Floater is a dramatic tour de force." NY Times Bestselling author Ken Morris (author of Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin, Man in the Middle, and Deadly Trade)
The Floater Sheryl Sorrentino 9781477436899 Books
I've spent nearly twenty years of my career working in law firms big and small. And I can vouch for how well "The Floater" nails the petty power slights, the stiff hierarchy and the arrogance of the lawyers, that is all too real in the legal industry.Norma is a believable character with plenty of street and book smarts that she earned the hard way as a middle-aged latina who couldn't rely on youth, attractiveness or her non-existent old boy's network to get ahead in this high-powered legal world. Her experience with her mother is heartbreaking and we partially relive that in the relationship with her sister.
But it is the employment discrimination suit against her law firm that supplies the core drama of the story. How will these powerful lawyers react to getting sued by a member of their support staff? Will she win? Can she keep her job at the firm even while taking its lawyers to court? There is also a wonderful cameo appearance by an East-Indian woman, Jayashri Gupta, who acts as Norma's lawyer. She is such a terrific counterpoint to the scumbag attorneys that mistreat Norma and she serves as the source of the novel's moral hope.
The heart of the novel is found in the love affair between Norma and Oscar Peterson, the African American who is the firm's copy center manager. He finds the damning evidence that allows Norma to pursue her lawsuit and he supports completely in her lawsuit and also in her life. Oscar is a strong, good man but he is far from perfect. A bit of a hot head who had an affair while married to his first wife. I liked him a lot maybe because of how he overcame his flaws and that could explain Norma's attraction to him as well.
This is the third of Sheryl Sorrentino's novels I've read and while all of them are riveting, "The Floater" reflects a writer who has made big leaps as novelist. I'm enthusiastically awaiting her next one!
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The Floater Sheryl Sorrentino 9781477436899 Books Reviews
The year is 2009, but you wouldn't know it walking through the hallowed halls of prestigious New York law firm, Robertson, Levine & Shemke. A throwback to the 1950's, where white men rule and women serve up coffee--and whatever else pleases the powers that be, RLS is the primary setting for novelist Sheryl Sorrentino's third book, "The Floater."
With stunning, captivating, and powerful prose, Sheryl takes us on a nine-month journey in the life of 46-year-old Norma Reyes, an attorney and caretaker for a senile mother and drug-addicted, welfare-collecting sister. Norma finds herself painstakingly navigating a bizarre law office landscape when she is passed over for a full time associate position at RLS and instead accepts a job as a "floater." Sheryl masterfully paints a vivid portrait of a firm where adversarial attorneys treat Norma like crap under their wingtip shoes, drawing the reader into a world they'll instantly love to hate. With equal strokes of genius, Sheryl has created a complex, three-dimensional heroine of Puerto Rican descent who's doggedly determined to realize her dreams, but when faced with the demeaning and discriminatory practices at RLS, falls prey to personal insecurities and childhood issues she has yet to conquer.
Despite Norma's frequent tendency toward tears, she refuses to sit on the pity pot! Sheryl artfully weaves a tale that will have readers rooting for Norma when her suspicions are confirmed that RLS refused to hire her as a lawyer because of her ethnicity, age and background--rather than the fledging economy. But where Sheryl shines brightest is in her renderings of Norma and Oscar's intimate, day-to-day interracial romance, which is strained almost to the breaking point by external pressures from Norma's lawsuit against the firm, as well as internal ones stemming from her past.
"The Floater" is not for the faint at heart. Its subject matter is deep and thought-provoking, its characters flawed, multifaceted, and human. Yet, with all its intensity, "The Floater" is at times as hilarious as it is heart-wrenching. Sheryl pulls no punches as she bares the fragile soul of Norma for the entire world to see, inspiring us to take a look at our own lives, prejudices, and fears. Norma is as loveable as she is irresistible. Kudos to Sheryl for having to courage to write such a bold and beautiful piece of work, and for introducing us to Norma, a woman's who's resiliency gives new meaning to the derogatory term she'd been labeled--The Floater.
I've spent nearly twenty years of my career working in law firms big and small. And I can vouch for how well "The Floater" nails the petty power slights, the stiff hierarchy and the arrogance of the lawyers, that is all too real in the legal industry.
Norma is a believable character with plenty of street and book smarts that she earned the hard way as a middle-aged latina who couldn't rely on youth, attractiveness or her non-existent old boy's network to get ahead in this high-powered legal world. Her experience with her mother is heartbreaking and we partially relive that in the relationship with her sister.
But it is the employment discrimination suit against her law firm that supplies the core drama of the story. How will these powerful lawyers react to getting sued by a member of their support staff? Will she win? Can she keep her job at the firm even while taking its lawyers to court? There is also a wonderful cameo appearance by an East-Indian woman, Jayashri Gupta, who acts as Norma's lawyer. She is such a terrific counterpoint to the scumbag attorneys that mistreat Norma and she serves as the source of the novel's moral hope.
The heart of the novel is found in the love affair between Norma and Oscar Peterson, the African American who is the firm's copy center manager. He finds the damning evidence that allows Norma to pursue her lawsuit and he supports completely in her lawsuit and also in her life. Oscar is a strong, good man but he is far from perfect. A bit of a hot head who had an affair while married to his first wife. I liked him a lot maybe because of how he overcame his flaws and that could explain Norma's attraction to him as well.
This is the third of Sheryl Sorrentino's novels I've read and while all of them are riveting, "The Floater" reflects a writer who has made big leaps as novelist. I'm enthusiastically awaiting her next one!
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