Binding: Hardcover
Description: It's My Year of Rest and Relaxation but with fewer pills and more boats. Entertainment Weekly A moving and darkly comic debut novel about an anxious young woman who administers a self - made placebo treatment in a last - ditch attempt to rebuild her life Amy Hanley has a job as a maid for the summer but on August 25, she will take the exam to become an EMT (third time's the charm!) and finally move on with her life. In the meantime she doesn t mind scrubbing toilets immaculately clean or tucking the sheet corners just so. In fact she tells herself that her work is a noble act of service to the rich guests at the yacht club. Amy's profound isolation colors everything: her job her aspirations even her interactions with the woman at the deli counter. And as the date for the EMT exam comes closer Amy's anxiety ratchets up in a way that is both familiar and troubling. In desperation she concocts a placebo program a self - prescribed regimen for her confidence devised to trick herself into succeeding. When her landlord Gary starts to invite her over for dinner to practice his cooking skills as he awaits approval of his Ukrainian fianc's visa Amy makes her first friend since her mother's passing. Alongside this unexpected connection comes a surge of hopeful obsession that Amy knows she must reckon with before the summer's end. Tender and laugh - out - loud funny Nobody Somebody Anybody explores the shadowy corners of a young woman's inner world of grief delusion and self - loathing revealing the creeping loneliness of modern life and our endless search for connection. Kelly Mc Clorey captures the hilarity and heartbreak of American ambition.
Title: Nobody Somebody Anybody A Novel
Author(s): Mcclorey Kelly
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063002654
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/6/2021