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Worry
by Alexandra Tanner
dark
funny
medium-paced
If you’re looking for stories about deeply depressed twenty-somethings struggling to adult and relate to each other in a world that’s on the verge of pandemic, wild political changes and upheaval (ie 2019) this is the book for you!
Jules is with a guy she’s maybe going to marry, in a steady if unfulfilling job, and only a little obsessed with stalking tradwife/conservative conspiracy theorists mommy bloggers online when her sister Poppy comes to stay and just… doesn’t leave.
As they fight, make up (kindof), attempt to cohabitate even while hoarding a life’s worth of emotional baggage and resentment in every corner—everything around them starts to get worse. Including their already fraught relationship with their mother who is heading down a MLM-conservative-wellness pipeline that we all know leads to trouble.
It’s a no plot all vibes kind of book, which I tend to enjoy, and darkly funny in a staring into the abyss full of ennui, must laugh before you cry sort of way.
The sisters are weirdos, I loved their unhinged thoughts and actions, they can’t take care of themselves but end up adopting a traumatized disabled dog, which totally tracks, and you can see nothing is going to be resolved by the end of the book but you desperately root for them anyway, the sweet little dum dums.
A great debut, that has something intensely readable about it. There’s a deeply on the verge of MAGA and the pandemic feel to it, which I felt was perfectly captured if mildly triggering consider where we are today. The characters are all pretty aggravating and not much happens but if you’re into that, it works beautifully. I feel like this busted me out of a months’ long reading slump too. Great debut, funny in a haha oh god wtf Smdh type of way, which is like my favourite kind of funny.
I’m so curious to see what she writes next!
Jules is with a guy she’s maybe going to marry, in a steady if unfulfilling job, and only a little obsessed with stalking tradwife/conservative conspiracy theorists mommy bloggers online when her sister Poppy comes to stay and just… doesn’t leave.
As they fight, make up (kindof), attempt to cohabitate even while hoarding a life’s worth of emotional baggage and resentment in every corner—everything around them starts to get worse. Including their already fraught relationship with their mother who is heading down a MLM-conservative-wellness pipeline that we all know leads to trouble.
It’s a no plot all vibes kind of book, which I tend to enjoy, and darkly funny in a staring into the abyss full of ennui, must laugh before you cry sort of way.
The sisters are weirdos, I loved their unhinged thoughts and actions, they can’t take care of themselves but end up adopting a traumatized disabled dog, which totally tracks, and you can see nothing is going to be resolved by the end of the book but you desperately root for them anyway, the sweet little dum dums.
A great debut, that has something intensely readable about it. There’s a deeply on the verge of MAGA and the pandemic feel to it, which I felt was perfectly captured if mildly triggering consider where we are today. The characters are all pretty aggravating and not much happens but if you’re into that, it works beautifully. I feel like this busted me out of a months’ long reading slump too. Great debut, funny in a haha oh god wtf Smdh type of way, which is like my favourite kind of funny.
I’m so curious to see what she writes next!