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"While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know." -Ann Patchett"Brutal, tender, funny. . . . I saw myself here. I saw the people I love. I am changed by this book." -Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, YesA compulsively readable debut novel - spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark, and tender - about a woman on the edge that combines the psychological insight of Sally Rooney with the sharp humor of Nina Stibbe and the emotional resonance of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.Martha Friel just turned forty. Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content. She used to live in a pied--terre in Paris.