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Is the real world ready for Jessica Darling?
At first it seems that sheâs living the elusive New York City dream. Sheâs subletting an apartment with her best friend, Hope, working for a magazine that actually utilizes her psychology degree, and still deeply in love with Marcus Flutie, the charismatic addict-turned-Buddhist who first captivated her at sixteen.
Of course, reality is more complicated than dreamy clichés. She and Hope share bunk beds in the âCupcakeââthe girlie pastel bedroom normally occupied by twelve-year-old twins. Their Brooklyn neighborhood is better suited to âbreeders,â and she and Hope split the rent with their promiscuous high school pal, Manda, and her âgenderqueer boifriend.â Freelancing for an obscure journal canât put a dent in Jessicaâs student loans, so sheâs eking out a living by babysitting her young niece and lamenting that she, unlike most of her friends, canât postpone adulthood by going back to school.
Yet itâs the ever-changing relationship with Marcus that leaves her most unsettled. At the ripe age of twenty-three, heâs just starting his freshman year at Princeton University. Is she ready to give up her imperfect yet invigorating post-college life just because her on-again/off-again soul mate asks her toâ¦marry him?
Jessica has one week to respond to Marcusâs perplexing marriage proposal. During this time, she gains surprising wisdom from unexpected sources, including a popular talk show shrink, a drag queen named Royalle G. Biv, and yes, even her parents. But the most shocking confession concerns two people she thought had nothing to hide: Hope and Marcus.
Will this knowledge inspire Jessica to give up a world of late-night literary soirees, art openings, and downtown drunken karaoke to move back to New Jersey and be with the one man whoâs gripped her heart for years? Jessica ponders this and other life choices with her signature snark and hyper-intense insight, making it the most tumultuous and memorable week of her twenty-something life.
This edition also contains Fourth Comings, Fourth Comings, Fourth Comings
This edition also contains Fourth Comings, Fourth Comings, Fourth Comings, Marriages & Families: Diversity and Change
This edition also contains Fourth Comings, Fourth Comings
About: Is the real world ready for Jessica Darling?
About: Searching desperately for work and sharing an apartment with three other girls in a Brooklyn brownstone, Jessica Darling is stunned when her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Marcus Flutie, asks her to marry him and gives her a week to think it over.
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