The New Me

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  • 'Terrific.
  • So
  • funny'
  • Zadie
  • Smith'Monstrously
  • depressing
  • but
  • so
  • comic
  • and
  • well
  • observed
  • that
  • I
  • didn't
  • really
  • mind
  • ....
  • It
  • is
  • great'
  • Dolly
  • Alderton'A
  • dark
  • comedy
  • of
  • female
  • rage'
  • Catherine
  • Lacey**'Brilliant.
  • For
  • fans
  • of
  • Ottessa
  • Moshfegh's
  • *My
  • Year
  • of
  • Rest
  • and
  • Relaxation'***Pandora
  • Sykes'Funny,
  • shocking,
  • clever,
  • and
  • hugely
  • entertaining'
  • Roddy
  • Doyle'A
  • definitive
  • work
  • of
  • milennial
  • literature'
  • Jia
  • Tolentino'The
  • best
  • thing
  • I've
  • read
  • in
  • years'
  • Emma
  • Jane
  • Unsworth'Vicious
  • ...
  • hilariously
  • spot
  • on'
  • GuardianIn
  • a
  • windowless
  • office,
  • a
  • woman
  • explains
  • something
  • from
  • her
  • real,
  • nonwork
  • life
  • -
  • about
  • the
  • frustration
  • and
  • indignity
  • of
  • returning
  • her
  • online
  • shopping
  • -
  • to
  • her
  • colleagues.
  • One
  • wears
  • a
  • topknot.
  • Another
  • checks
  • her
  • pedometer.Watching
  • them
  • all
  • is
  • Millie.
  • Thirty-years-old
  • and
  • an
  • eternal
  • temp,
  • she
  • says
  • almost
  • nothing,
  • almost
  • all
  • of
  • the
  • time.But
  • then
  • the
  • possibility
  • of
  • a
  • permanent
  • job
  • arises.
  • Will
  • it
  • bring
  • the
  • new
  • life
  • Millie
  • is
  • envisioning
  • -
  • one
  • involving
  • a
  • gym
  • membership,
  • a
  • book
  • club,
  • and
  • a
  • lot
  • less
  • beer
  • and
  • TV
  • -
  • finally
  • within
  • reach?
  • Or
  • will
  • it
  • reveal
  • just
  • how
  • hollow
  • that
  • vision
  • has
  • become?'Made
  • me
  • laugh
  • and
  • cry
  • enough
  • times
  • to
  • feel
  • completely
  • reborn'
  • The
  • Paris
  • Review'A
  • definite
  • work
  • of
  • millennial
  • literature.
  • Wretchedly
  • riveting,
  • with
  • the
  • sick,
  • obsessive
  • pleasure
  • of
  • looking
  • under
  • a
  • bandage
  • at
  • a
  • wound'
  • The
  • New
  • Yorker'So
  • darkly
  • funny
  • and
  • acutely
  • observed
  • that
  • it
  • feels
  • like
  • a
  • documentary'
  • Andrew
  • McMillan'Anyone
  • who
  • has
  • ever
  • felt
  • like
  • their
  • life
  • is
  • going
  • nowhere
  • -
  • and
  • to
  • make
  • it
  • worse,
  • going
  • nowhere
  • in
  • an
  • achingly
  • slow
  • manner
  • -
  • will
  • recognize
  • themselves' Nylon
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