Supersaurio
A Novel
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
An uproarious debut novel about a young woman from the Canary Islands whose internship with a supermarket chain reveals the soul-crushing vagaries of modern life.
Meryem is twenty-five years old, drinks too much coffee, goes on dates with terrifying men and never says what she really thinks. A Canarian from a Moroccan family, she’s just started working as an intern at a mega-chain supermarket, where the only thing she and her boss have in common is their mutual hatred for each other.
To pass the time, Meryem begins to write fan fiction starring her office mates. Surrounded by insecure and inept individuals, she reimagines her bland day job through fabricated office crushes and coworker drama. But to get through the daily grind, she’s going to have to summon more than just her imagination.
Bold, refreshing and darkly comedic, Supersaurio vividly portrays the everyday trials and tribulations of entering your twenties in a world that feels like everything’s pitted against you.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This brilliantly funny debut novel crosses borders, cultures, and generations in its note-perfect take on how maddening your entry-level twenties can be. Meryem is 25, overqualified, and underpaid at Supersaurio, the Canary Islands’ biggest supermarket chain. Her workdays are a slog of meaningless reports and casual microaggressions. At night, she writes fan fiction and restlessly imagines escape plans. Meryem El Mehdati turns everyday exhaustion into art. With fearless humour and an assassin’s precision, she captures a young woman facing sexism, racism, and the quiet suffocation of corporate life, quietly aching for a place to belong. The Canary Islands, sun-drenched yet precarious, feel like a trap where tourism thrives and locals scrape by. Fast and furiously alive, Supersaurio is a darkly comic portrait of quarter-life burnout and a striking debut from one of Spain’s most original new voices.
