The Job

About the book

"The Job: An American Novel" by Sinclair Lewis is a novel published in the early 1900s. It follows Una Golden, a young woman who leaves small-town Pennsylvania for New York to pursue education and career opportunities. When financial hardship forces her into the workforce, Una enters the male-dominated world of commercial real estate, becoming her firm's first female realtor. The novel charts her struggle to balance professional ambition with the expectations of romance and marriage, navigating scandalous choices for women of her era.