Jillian - Halle Butler

Category: Adults, General Fiction, Humor, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Halle Butler Jillian

Written by Halle Butler
Read by Halle Butler
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

The “sublimely awkward and hilarious” (Chicago Tribune), National Book Award “5 Under 35″ - garnering first novel from the acclaimed author of The New Me - now in a new edition

Twenty-four-year-old Megan may have her whole life ahead of her, but it already feels like a dead end, thanks to her dreadful job as a gastroenterologist’s receptionist and her heart-clogging resentment of the success and happiness of everyone around her. But no one stokes Megan’s bitterness quite like her coworker, Jillian, a grotesquely optimistic, 35-year-old single mother whose chirpy positivity obscures her mounting struggles.

Megan and Jillian’s lives become increasingly precarious as their faulty coping mechanisms - denial, self-help books, alcohol, religion, prescription painkillers, obsessive criticism, alienated boyfriends, and, in Jillian’s case, the misguided purchase of a dog - send them spiraling toward their downfalls. Wickedly authentic and brutally funny, Jillian is a subversive portrait of two women trapped in cycles of self-delusion and self-destruction, each more like the other than they would care to admit.