How To Order The Universe by Maria Jose Ferrada

A delightful story of a little girl and her traveling salesman father. M and her father D have an unusual alliance ever since the age of seven when she announced that she would become his assistant.
Some days school gets missed for longer trips and there are times she becomes assistants to other salesmen when they realize the benefit of having a cute little girl next to them to close the deal. M is charming, whipsmart, and in the same vein as Fredrik Backman's characters, a true delight. As she gets older she realizes more about her dad, being a traveling salesman, and how it shaped her adult behavior. A slim novel that teaches that life isn't too tough when your shoes are shiny, you smoke a lucky cigarette and you are helping your dad.  4 stars