Harriet is floundering. SheοΏ½s in her early forties, her kids have gone to college, her marriage feels empty, her cable TV cooking show has lost its sense of inspiration, and she longs to leave the West Coast for New York. Then one day she meets Lydia, a gorgeous woman in her late twenties. Lydia rem
The New Me
β Scribed by Butler, Halle
- Book ID
- 110489211
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 231 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780525505402
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β¦ Synopsis
"A dark comedy of female rage" (Catherine Lacey) and a biting satire of life in the American workforce from a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and Granta Best Young American Novelist
NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY VULTURE, THE HUFFINGTON POST, BUSTLE, LITHUB, AND THE MILLIONS
I'm still trying to make the dream possible: still might finish my cleaning project, still might sign up for that yoga class, still might, still might. I step into the shower and almost faint, an image of taking the day by the throat and bashing its head against the wall floating in my mind.
Thirty-year-old Millie just can't pull it together. She spends her days working a thankless temp job and her nights alone in her apartment, fixating on all the ways she might change her situation--her job, her attitude, her appearance, her life. Then she watches TV until she falls asleep, and the cycle begins again.
When the possibility of a full-time...
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