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“This was it, forever! Maybe!”

Equal parts hilarious and heart-breaking, a memoir-like fictional rendering raising the question: Just how far is one Millennial willing to go towards (or away from) a newly adjusted life, uncoupled?

Maggie, our first person POV narrator, is 28 yrs old, – a smartly sarcastic (read: deeply self-reproving) English literature graduate student, suddenly cast into emotional upheaval with the (self-suggested, but not actually contemplated) breakup of her marriage.

Nothing seems impossible, in this fire-hose blast of a life upturned, as our heroine, long-accustomed to un-facing the unfaceable (as achingly vulnerable in her parody of self as she is alarming in her brutally escapist shenanigans) must now pull out all the stops.

As Maggie struggles to consider the emotional ramifications of a “new life as an unlovable husk”, there are problems to solve everywhere – choices to be made involving housing, career, and of course, her flagging personal and social life.

“Everywhere looked like the kind of place where a neighbor has drums.”

“It looked like the second nicest room in a very humane Scandinavian prison”.

Gifted with wry observational humor (turned inward at its sharpest) Maggie is a charmer – a cleverly reflective emotional composite echoing a modern day woman’s darkest fears, feminist ramblings, misguided reactions – and dream-like glimpses, brief but visible, of a fantasy world still out there to be discovered, made more perfect by its elusiveness.

A warm and witty read, with more than a hint of thoughtfulness, this comedic drama is a Millennial testament to the trials (and truths) encountered fighting for love (self and other) in a world gone spiral.

A great big thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for an ARC of this book. All thoughts presented are my own.