Ambition Monster
Book description
"Entertaining and highly relatable." -The New York Times
"As hilarious as it is heart-wrenching...[A] gift of storytelling, and an act of reclamation." -Ashley C. Ford, New York Times bestselling author
A deeply personal memoir about workaholism, the addictive nature of ambition, and the humbling process of picking yourself up when…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Ambition Monster as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Come for the tea in the Condé Nast cafeteria, and stay for the depth. This book is a dishy and raw memoir of growing up in an Italian family in working-class Philly, rising through the ranks of the New York magazine world during its last hurrah in the early 2000s, scaling the corporate ladder–until the author realized that her greatest ambition was to overcome her workaholism.
This was the most honest book we’ve ever read about the realities of being a woman in the business world, stripped of all that irritating #girlboss gloss. It’s fast-paced and, at times, heartbreaking–but not…
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