Overqualified is a humorous collection of terrible resume cover letters. Through them, one gradually grows to know the weird narrator and has a number of laughs along the way.
Overqualified is not a deeply moving story in the way that Veins, another humorous novella, was. While Viens makes one seriously consider the man behind the laughter, in Overqualified we get a collection of really good laugh lines
I don’t make collect calls, I make the operator pay.
and
When a week had gone by, my lady friend asked, “Have you finished with my book yet?”
I shook my head. “No,” I said, “but I’m finished with you.”
and
“You think that love has to last forever for it to be real. You think it isn’t true love unless it lasts until one of us is dead…. That isn’t love. That’s dog fighting.”
I mostly read Overqualified in two sittings. It was well worth the $8.59 price for the Kindle edition.
