She lets me do all the work and never lifts a finger to help.

Their bath is fitted with a spa.

All must be represented on a strict basis of proportion of the number of citizens for whom they cater: Football-pool promoters (six representatives), barrow-boys (two representatives), share-pushers, erks, nig-nogs, [etc.].

The unnamed narrator of Whitehead’s parablelike third novel is a cynical “nomenclature consultant,” who devises names for such products as Apex, a Band-Aid knockoff sold in a variety of skin tones.