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Mona is a Millennial perfectionist who fails upwards in the midst of the 2008 economic crisis. Despite her potential, and her top-of-her-class college degree, Mona finds herself unemployed, living with her parents, and adrift in life and love. Mona's the sort who says exactly the right thing at absolutely the wrong moments, seeing the world through a cynic's eyes. In the financial and social malaise of the early 2000s, Mona walks a knife's edge as she faces down unemployment, underemployment, the complexities of adult relationships, and the downward spiral of her parents' shattering marriage. The more Mona craves perfection and order, the more she is forced to see that it is never attainable. Mona's journey asks the question: When we find what gives our life meaning, will we be ready for it?
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June 30, 2021 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781951631024
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781951631024
- File size: 1474 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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June 1, 2021
DEBUT This sharp, painfully honest debut centers on Mona Mireles, a struggling (more like drowning) millennial. Mona is the girl who succeeds at everything she tries, and she graduates from college certain that she'll put her finance degree to good use in her new job at a megabank in New York. The only problem is that the bank that hired her has just gone under in the economic crash of 2008. Now jobless and back home with her parents, Mona is trying to live down her viral video meltdown, for which the internet's called her the "Sad Millennial." Despite sending out more than 400 r�sum�s and going on numerous interviews, she's had no offers, and months of failure have pushed her into a cynical depression and self-destructive behaviors. VERDICT If this all sounds too painful to bear, it is, at times. It's also caustically funny and revealing, as Mona stumbles into a new version of what her life could be. Fans of Stephanie Danler's Sweetbitter and Sally Rooney's novels will want to read this one.--Jane Jorgenson, Madison P.L., WI
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