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Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey

喜剧演员、散文家和获奖编剧莫妮卡-海西(Monica Heisey)的首部小说,讲述了一个女人在意外失恋后寻找快乐和意义的混乱过程,令人捧腹大笑,痛快淋漓。

麦琪很好。事实上,她做得非常好。当然,她身无分文,她关于一些不知名事物的研究生论文毫无进展,她的婚姻只持续了608天,但在29岁的成熟年龄,麦琪决心拥抱她作为一个令人惊讶的年轻离婚者™的新生活。

现在她有时间从事九项爱好,在凌晨4点吃汉堡包,并在性方面 “重新出发”。在她强硬的学术顾问梅里斯、她新近离婚的朋友艾米和她的群聊(自然)的支持下,麦琪在她第一年的单身生活中,断断续续地约会,偶尔在地板上醒来,一路上问自己一些难题。

这部作品令人捧腹大笑,充满了敏锐的观察力,是一部温柔而苦涩的喜剧,揭示了现代爱情、友谊的不确定性,以及我们对所谓 “幸福 “的追求。这是一个令人难忘的小说界新声音的出色首秀。

A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning in the wake of an unexpected breakup, from comedian, essayist, and award-winning screenwriter Monica Heisey

Maggie is fine. She’s doing really good, actually. Sure, she’s broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days, but at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new life as a Surprisingly Young Divorcée™.

Now she has time to take up nine hobbies, eat hamburgers at 4 am, and “get back out there” sex-wise. With the support of her tough-loving academic advisor, Merris; her newly divorced friend, Amy; and her group chat (naturally), Maggie barrels through her first year of single life, intermittently dating, occasionally waking up on the floor and asking herself tough questions along the way.

Laugh-out-loud funny and filled with sharp observations, Really Good, Actually is a tender and bittersweet comedy that lays bare the uncertainties of modern love, friendship, and our search for that thing we like to call “happiness”. This is a remarkable debut from an unforgettable new voice in fiction.

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