An Inspirational Voice that Illuminates a Generation

By Julianna Haubner    |   Friday, May 29, 2015    Off the Shelf During the spring of 2014, exactly one year ago, I was getting ready to graduate from college. I had started packing up my dorm room, writing my last papers, thinking about loose ends, and mentally sorting through my list of friends and dividing them into “good-bye for now,” “good-bye forever,” and “not saying good-bye.” Still, I was remarkably zen about the whole thing. I felt like I’d accomplished what I’d wanted, met good people, and was headed in a direction I’d worked hard for. And then, I spent a gray afternoon in Barnes & Noble, where I found Marina Keegan’s The Opposite of Loneliness.... READ MORE