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Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle
3.70/5 (565 ratings)
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"From the discomfort of my own home I buy dresses, look up recipes, do online surveys."

In Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, an unnamed young woman in her late twenties navigates unemployment, boredom, chronic illness and online dating. Her activities are banal — applying for jobs, looking up horoscopes, managing depression, going on Tinder dates.

'I want to tell someone I love them but there is no one to tell,' she says. 'Except my sister maybe. I want to pick blackberries on a farm and then die.' She observes the ambiguities of social interactions, the absurd intimacies of sex and the indignity of everyday events, with a skepticism about the possibility of genuine emotion, or enlightenment. Like life, things are just unfolding, and sometimes, like life, they don't actually get better. Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's novella-in-fragments blends artifice with sincerity, is darkly funny, and alive to the incongruous performance that constitutes getting by.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
68 pages
Publication:
2021
Publisher:
Giramondo Publishing
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1925818772
ISBN13:
9781925818772
kindle Asin:
B09BTQM1GR

Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life

Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle
3.70/5 (565 ratings)
Read Download
"From the discomfort of my own home I buy dresses, look up recipes, do online surveys."

In Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, an unnamed young woman in her late twenties navigates unemployment, boredom, chronic illness and online dating. Her activities are banal — applying for jobs, looking up horoscopes, managing depression, going on Tinder dates.

'I want to tell someone I love them but there is no one to tell,' she says. 'Except my sister maybe. I want to pick blackberries on a farm and then die.' She observes the ambiguities of social interactions, the absurd intimacies of sex and the indignity of everyday events, with a skepticism about the possibility of genuine emotion, or enlightenment. Like life, things are just unfolding, and sometimes, like life, they don't actually get better. Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's novella-in-fragments blends artifice with sincerity, is darkly funny, and alive to the incongruous performance that constitutes getting by.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
68 pages
Publication:
2021
Publisher:
Giramondo Publishing
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1925818772
ISBN13:
9781925818772
kindle Asin:
B09BTQM1GR

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