 And for me, this is the thing that's at the heart of this book. Her characters have to play the game that's in front of them, not some better, more fair game, not the game they wish they could play. And Min says that can apply to how we all think about work. Because there's this idea, at least in the U.S., that the labor market is some kind of meritocracy, that if we work hard enough, we might find exactly the job that's going to fulfill us personally.