Description: The "sublimely awkward and hilarious" (Chicago Tribune) National Book Award "5 Under 35" - garnering first novel from the acclaimed author of The New Me - - now in a new edition 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 spiraling toward their downfalls. Wickedly authentic and brutally funny Jillian is a subversive portrait of two women trapped in cycles of self - delusion and self - destruction each more like the other than they would care to admit.
Title: Jillian A Novel
Barcode: 9780143135524
Publication Date: 7/7/2020