http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2015/08/karen_russell_talks_to_helen_phillips_about_the_beautiful_bureaucrat.html

Listen, let me start by saying that I don’t envy anybody who had to write flap jacket copy for Helen Phillips’ debut novel for adults, The Beautiful Bureaucrat. How to describe it? In a way, The Beautiful Bureaucrat is a sort of urban bildungsroman/existential detective story. Two newlyweds from “the hinterland,” Joseph and Josephine, move to a narrow sublet in a city that, like a city in a dream, both is and is not New York. Josephine tries to feel grateful for her job in a windowless compound, where she inputs an infinite number string into “The Database.” Soon after she becomes employed, her husband begins to disappear for lengthening intervals of time.