Jillian
Butler, Halle2020
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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 spiralling toward their downfalls.
Main title:
Jillian / Halle Butler.
Author:
Butler, Halle, author
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020.
Collation:
199 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Chicago: Curbside Splendor, 2015.
ISBN:
9781474617574 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6G
LC class:
PS3602.U8716
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2680167