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jesikasbookshelf 's review for:
The Lonely Fajita
by Abigail Mann
If you are looking for a gorgeous book with feisty old folks in it, this is the one!
Elissa is working in an unpaid internship - because the 21st century workforce is a joke - when her boyfriend decides he is going to go on a gap year. Alone. Leaving her...homeless.
So, naturally, Elissa ends up accepting an offer to live rent free with 83 year old Annie in an elderly village.
The book charts Elissa's journey towards a better working life (i.e. maybe she might get paid?) whilst hilariously reflecting the ridiculousness of some aspects of modern life. Annie shows Elissa how to exist in the world and connect with actual humans rather than feeling lonely and sad after spending all day working and socialising on the Internet.
It is heartwarming and real - Annie isn't some doddery old woman, she is a nightmare pensioner that will remind you of the ridiculous situations your grandparents regularly decide to put you in. In a time of lockdown and permanently trying to engage online, it helped me remember that it is OK I find that exhausting and false -because it is. And that I miss my Gran the most because she is the one person I count on to always point out to me I'm doing just fine but also being completely ridiculous.
Elissa is working in an unpaid internship - because the 21st century workforce is a joke - when her boyfriend decides he is going to go on a gap year. Alone. Leaving her...homeless.
So, naturally, Elissa ends up accepting an offer to live rent free with 83 year old Annie in an elderly village.
The book charts Elissa's journey towards a better working life (i.e. maybe she might get paid?) whilst hilariously reflecting the ridiculousness of some aspects of modern life. Annie shows Elissa how to exist in the world and connect with actual humans rather than feeling lonely and sad after spending all day working and socialising on the Internet.
It is heartwarming and real - Annie isn't some doddery old woman, she is a nightmare pensioner that will remind you of the ridiculous situations your grandparents regularly decide to put you in. In a time of lockdown and permanently trying to engage online, it helped me remember that it is OK I find that exhausting and false -because it is. And that I miss my Gran the most because she is the one person I count on to always point out to me I'm doing just fine but also being completely ridiculous.