Novel by Amélie Nothomb, fictional but seems to be loosely based on authors own experiences which made that much more anxiety-inducing!

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Main character, Amélie, begins working at a cutthroat Japanese corporation. She’s bottom rung of the ladder and her immediate supervisor seems intent on finding fault with her work no matter the effort.

She faces discrimination faces for being Belgian, for being a woman, for being too young, etc etc etc. 

Yet Amélie faces all of it with her head held high. She is determined to finish out her contract and not break under the pressure to give her superiors the satisfaction of proving their assumptions correct.

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