Halle Butler

Jillian dreams of an idyllic future. Megan hates Jillian. They search for identity while answering phones and filing colonoscopies.

Jillian

lexie

- I felt the rage that Megan's have, like she's ready to fight anyone that will say anything against her.
- In a way their similarities makes them feel so angry that they will burst and screams.
- I feel bad for Jillian (slightly) but she's not that annoying, When she tried to get a $800 dollars from elena.

so the existential terrors don't end huh. loved the writing style of this book.

Nootoolyoo

Elena Favret

The "sublimely awkward and hilarious" (Chicago Tribune), National Book Award "5 Under 35"-garnering first novel from the acclaimed author of The New Me--now in a new edition Twenty-four-year-old Megan may have her whole life ahead of her, but it already feels like a dead end, thanks to her dreadful job as a gastroenterologist's receptionist and her heart-clogging resentment of the success and happiness of everyone around her. But no one stokes Megan's bitterness quite like her coworker, Jillian, a grotesquely optimistic, thirty-five-year-old single mother whose chirpy positivity obscures her mounting struggles. Megan and Jillian's lives become increasingly precarious as their faulty coping mechanisms--denial, self-help books, alcohol, religion, prescription painkillers, obsessive criticism, alienated boyfriends, and, in Jillian's case, the misguided purchase of a dog--send them spiraling toward their downfalls. Wickedly authentic and brutally funny, Jillian is a subversive portrait of two women trapped in cycles of self-delusion and self-destruction, each more like the other than they would care to admit.

Jillian

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