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Sheryl Sorrentino
The Floater
The Floater
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Welcome to The Great Recession, when companies are laying people off left and right, and even Big Law isn't hiring anymore. At least there's no place at Robertson, Levine & Shemke for 46-year-old Norma Reyes, a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx who recently graduated from an unremarkable fourth-tier law school. Short on luck and desperate for a job after the firm imposes a hiring freeze following her successful completion of their summer internship program, Norma accepts RLS's offer to work as a "floater" (i.e., rotating secretary)—a title that conjures the distasteful image of something stubbornly bobbing in the toilet no matter how many times you flush.
Norma’s only trying to stay afloat until the economy improves and she can land a job as a lawyer, but RLS's shallow, self-absorbed attorneys seem hell-bent on keeping this buoyant, middle-aged career climber down. But when Norma unexpectedly meets “Oscar-the-Copy-Guy,” the firm's outspoken African-American copy room supervisor, she finds herself instantly drawn to him despite her misgivings about dating a divorced coworker with two teenage daughters. That is, until Oscar hands Norma a smoking gun on their third date—an incriminating, tell-all memo from RLS's libidinous managing partner admitting to age and national origin discrimination in the firm's decision not to hire Norma as an attorney. Though Norma dreads taking on RLS's powerful brass, she and Oscar join forces against the firm while pursuing a fiercely tender and harrowingly intimate romance that compels Norma to confront long-unresolved personal demons, even as she battles the “powers that be.”
Set against the contemporary backdrop of an ailing economy and brutal job market, and called “The Rocky of Legal Dramas” by N.Y. Times best-selling author Ken Morris, The Floater tells the story of how one tenacious Puerto Rican woman from the Bronx beat the odds in love, life, and the labor market.
Norma’s only trying to stay afloat until the economy improves and she can land a job as a lawyer, but RLS's shallow, self-absorbed attorneys seem hell-bent on keeping this buoyant, middle-aged career climber down. But when Norma unexpectedly meets “Oscar-the-Copy-Guy,” the firm's outspoken African-American copy room supervisor, she finds herself instantly drawn to him despite her misgivings about dating a divorced coworker with two teenage daughters. That is, until Oscar hands Norma a smoking gun on their third date—an incriminating, tell-all memo from RLS's libidinous managing partner admitting to age and national origin discrimination in the firm's decision not to hire Norma as an attorney. Though Norma dreads taking on RLS's powerful brass, she and Oscar join forces against the firm while pursuing a fiercely tender and harrowingly intimate romance that compels Norma to confront long-unresolved personal demons, even as she battles the “powers that be.”
Set against the contemporary backdrop of an ailing economy and brutal job market, and called “The Rocky of Legal Dramas” by N.Y. Times best-selling author Ken Morris, The Floater tells the story of how one tenacious Puerto Rican woman from the Bronx beat the odds in love, life, and the labor market.
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