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The drinks flowed for the late-twenties and early-thirties someones who weren't certain of anything but uncertainty. Carroll constructs a sea of relationships hinged on damning quests for approval and the purgatory of doubt, both obvious for the reader but not for the characters. Transitory is tense when you step back from it, but if you dive in head first, its a flowing and poised voice for the modern confused, for distraught youth piloting their limbs to destinations unknown yet somehow invigorating. It is as much short story collection as social confession on finding hope in hopelessness.
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