Bond Girl

Bond Girl (2012) by Erin Duffy. This is the story of a young woman named Alex who dreams of, then attains, a job at a Wall Street firm. But her dream job quickly turns into a nightmare as she finds that Wall Street is a good-ole-boy network, and that she has the disadvantage not only of being a woman, but of being the junior employee at a large firm. Her superiors do everything they can to strip her of her last shred of dignity (they refer to her, not by her name, but as "girlie"), including sending her to fetch 50 pizzas from the lobby of the building, all by herself. In spite of it all, this is a funny book, and it has the unmistakable air of authenticity (Duffy herself worked for more than a decade in fixed-income sales on Wall Street). The book has little of great import to say, but I enjoyed it immensely. Grade: B