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Margo’s Got Money Troubles: A Novel by Rufi Thorpe

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cbr18bingo Clown — features characters who are costumed performers (LARPing, cosplay for OnlyFans, professional wrestling). Cannonball! Margo’s Got Money Troubles is a very clever and entertaining novel about performance, voice, point of view. The narrator is Margo, who, while shifting her voice between first and third person, relates the story of her own shifting persona as a daughter, a single mother, a content creator, and a business person. Margo uses her wits and her heart to try to create the life she wants for herself […]

“The beginning of a novel is like a first date.”

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

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Nowhere Book Bingo 26: Adapted into movie or TV show (on Apple+ now) 19-year-old Margo Millet has an ill-advised affair with her English professor at college and gets pregnant. Against the advice of absolutely everyone, including her mother (a former Hooters waitress), she decides to keep it. Unfortunately, being pregnant and then a young single mother isn’t especially attractive on the job market, and before she knows it, two of her roommates have also moved out, because they just can’t handle the noise and the […]

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Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

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“There is a desperation to a novel that is unsettling. The world so painstakingly re-created in miniature; this tiny diorama made of words. Why go to all this trouble, to create me, to seduce you, to enumerate so many different breakfast cereals? To make the cunning tiny apartment, the itsy-bitsy Jinx? It’s like going to meet your new boyfriend’s family for the first time and discovering they are all paid actors. It’s almost easier to believe I’m real than to understand what’s actually going on. […]



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