What If This Were Enough: Essays

✍ Scribed by Havrilesky, Heather

• Book ID: 110503104
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 337 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780385542883

✦ Synopsis

By the author of the New York Times Love and Relationships bestseller How to Be a Person in the World , an impassioned and inspiring collection about the expectations of modern life and the sweet imperfections of the everyday
Heather Havrilesky's writing has been called "whip-smart and profanely funny" (Entertainment Weekly) and "required reading for all humans" (Celeste Ng). In her work for New York, The Baffler, The New York Times Magazine , and The Atlantic , as well as in her advice column for The Cut, "Ask Polly," she dispenses a singular, cutting wisdom--an ability to inspire, provoke, and put a name to our most insidious cultural delusions.
What If This Were Enough? is a mantra and a clarion call. In its chapters--many of them original to the book, others expanded from their initial publication--Havrilesky takes on those cultural forces that shape us. From the enforced cheer of American life to the...