A little like her fictional forebear Christopher from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, much of it mystifies her or seems to bypass her entirely her awkwardness wrongfoots people, mainly bemusing but occasionally angering them. Not exactly groovy barista behaviour: lucky, therefore, that she can make a sort-of living testing computer software in between bouts of World of Warcraft.īut Leila's relationship to the outside world is paradoxical. Her inadequate interpersonal skills mean that work is tricky: a job in Caffè Nero is cut short because Leila snacks on the unwanted flakes of customers' croissants and then, "to alleviate the tedium", decides to hum, "seeing if I could hold the same note continuously for the time each item took to be washed up". L eila is not well suited to the times much contemporary idiom is lost on her, and the intensity with which superficial friendships are celebrated on social media leaves her bewildered and uncomfortable.
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