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By Taylor Noel | Wednesday,
March 01, 2017
I love reading novels with dysfunctional characters. Something
about their utter inability to get it together makes me feel so much better
about my own moments of ineptitude. I may have accidentally forgotten to pay
my electric bill last week, but I’ve never been so overwhelmed with
responsibility that I disappear on my family like Bernadette in Maria
Semple’s WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE. Sure, I’ve embarrassed myself after a
drink too many once or twice, but I certainly haven’t squandered an entire
inheritance after a drunk driving accident like Leo in Cynthia D’Aprix
Sweeney’s THE NEST.
And I may be a poor twentysomething trying to make it in New
York City, but I’m so glad I’m not a grad-school dropout living at home and
unable to face reality like Cal in Kris D’Agostino’s THE SLEEPY HOLLOW FAMILY
ALMANAC. READ
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