How Can My Manager Be So Stupid?

Utterly delightful - the perfect mix of wry humor, fascinating characters, and heartfelt thoughts on what it means to understand the world through stories … It’s one of those rare books that, when I finished, I wanted to turn back to the first page and start again, greeting the characters like friends * Kristen Perrin, bestselling author of How to Solve Your Own Murder *
Winsome, silly, poignant, and utterly relatable, How Can My Manager Be So Stupid? reminds us of the importance of both losing ourselves and finding ourselves in a good book. * Mara Faye Lethem, author of A Person’s A Person, No Matter How Small, and translator of Beatriz Serrano’s Discontent *
Teeming with small bookish delights and hilarious bookish catastrophes, How Can My Manager Be So Stupid? is a love letter to books and bookstores and a charming, delightful gem * Susan Coll, USA Today bestselling author of Bookish People and forthcoming Word Salad *
A wry read perfect for anyone who’s ever worked a customer-facing job and has felt their soul slowly wither away. How Can My Manager Be So Stupid? balances wit, humor, and heart to spin a compelling story filled with book love and big feelings * Mackenzie Reed, author of I Hope This Email Finds You in Hell *
Perfectly wry * Foyles (2026’s Best Translated Fiction) *

Kazumasa Hayami is a writer and screenwriter, born in 1977 in Kanagawa Prefecture. His debut novel 108 was a bestseller and later made into a manga and a film. He won the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award for his novel Innocent Days, and the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize for The Royal Family. His novels are almost all adapted for screen.

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