Thirty-one year old Casey Peabody is a mess. Her years of eduction have left her with a huge debt which could all be erased if she could just finish the great American novel she knows she is just a few pages from finishing - or maybe a few hundred. All that education has landed her a waitressing job with a lecherous boss at an elite Harvard club which only serves to peck at that debt but leaves her little time for writing. On top of all that she has just lost her mother which leads to tearful outbursts at the most inconvenient times.
That being said, Casey shares her story with the satire and wit that reveals her intelligence and spirit. And hanging in Cambridge does provide some opportunity to rub elbows with other writers - some more successful, some less, some good friends and some troubling lovers.
This story lacks the heft of her earlier novel Euphoria but it was nice to revisit this time of life and think about how you survived your own 20's and 30's.
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