A review by chillcox15
We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman

4.0

I think that the narrative of Jen Silverman's novel We Play Ourselves, is fairly familiar: it draws from many of the tropes of the "flailing millennial woman" well. A preternatural talent who self-sabotages and buys into anxieties brought about by more preternatural, younger talents decamps, and decamps, and decamps again. The cycle repeats, until our protagonist Cass is completely run dry. The level of detail, both in specificity and originality, shores up Silverman's novel and makes it a completely worthwhile read.