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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three • “O'Donoghue deepens the familiar coming-of-age premise with riveting...
"Because this is actually a collection of presentations, each chapter feels very "stand alone," as opposed to a building on what came before. Some of that results in phrasing or sentences that will be repetitive. However, that also allows each tene..."
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"This book is quietly horrifying, claustrophobic, and frequently nearly hopeless. Yet throughout, the main character doggedly, persistently, puts one foot in front of another as a mother and survivor. Each day takes on the cadences of her pursuit o..."
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"Starts off very strong, with a terrific premise and well-drawn characters who have every reason not to trust each other but finding some common ground. It then transforms into a Quest, which rambles along fairly well through the Various Tests and ..."
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"Oh my goodness but I love love love Alison Bechdel. This novel was far lighter on the philosophical musings and asides than her other works, especially Are You My Mother? and Fun Home, but it does not suffer for that fact. Instead, it reads as a m..."
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