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The Contractors

Written by: Lisa Ko
Narrated by: Lea Salonga
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A split-screen view of the tech industry’s underbelly—and the unifying campaign of two distant women seeking to expose their employer—by Lisa Ko, award-winning author of The Leavers.

In this eye-opening short story, a tech reporter’s mistake unites two women eight thousand miles apart. One in New Jersey, one in the Philippines. Same name: Sandra Guzman. Same job: content moderators for a mega social media website. What transpires between them is a friendship that changes their perceptions of each other’s privilege and challenges the power of the very industry they work for.

Lisa Ko’s The Contractors is part of Out of Line, an incisive collection of funny, enraging, and hopeful stories of women’s empowerment and escape. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.

Audible narration by Lea Salonga (Aladdin)

©2020 Lisa Ko (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Anthologies & Short Stories Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Women's Fiction World Literature Short Story Funny
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Well written story by Lisa Ko and excellent narrated by Lea Salonga.
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