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On The Clock Richard Yates Those born Ordinary are justClaire Baglin's On the Clock packs a family saga, a penetrating picture of social inequality, and a coming of age story into a compact tale told in two alternating strands. The first follows the 20 year old narrator's summer job at a fast food franchise and the other shows us moments from her childhood with her family, with a particular focus on her hapless, infuriating, good hearted father, a low paid but devoted electrician in a factory with an