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“I look for something else I could do for work but feel unqualified for everything interesting and repulsed by everything else.”

The New Me by Halle Butler

April 12, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

This very moment was the correct time for me to charge through this nasty (a compliment!) little slice of life. There was a time, not too long ago, that the crippling desperation of Millie would have felt far too familiar. There is a lot of Hannah Horvath (Girls) in Millie, and I found Girls very hard to stomach when I too was young, squandering privilege, and living like a recluse outside of my seriously uninspiring job. “Everyone thinks deep in their hearts (at least when they’re young, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adulthood, black humor, Chicago, Depression, ennui, fast read, Halle Butler, rage, temp work, unreliable narrator

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: adulthood, black humor, Chicago, Depression, ennui, fast read, Halle Butler, rage, temp work, unreliable narrator ·
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