Shirin, Nina, and Silvia have just gotten their first jobs in publishing. And it's... great? They know the challenges they meet (Shirin's boss just assumes she knows Cantonese, Nina cannot get promoted by sheer force of will, and Silvia has to deal with daily microaggressions) are just part of "a career in books". When they meet their elderly neighbor Veronica, and discover she's a Booker Prize winner, each woman finds a thread of inspiration from Veronica's life to carry on her own path. Charming, wry, and with fantastic black and white illustrations, A Career in Books is a modern ode to Rona Jaffe's The Best of Everything, as readers chart the paths of three Asian-American women trying to break through the world of books with hilarious, incisive, and heartbreaking results.