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Faber and Faber
June 2013
On Sale: June 4, 2013
256 pages
ISBN: 0865478996
EAN: 9780865478992
Kindle: B009LRWWGI
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Contemporary
A witty, keenly observant look at our Internet-obsessed
culture Anna Krestler is adrift. The Internet has draped itself,
kudzu-like, over her brain, which makes it even more
difficult to confront the question of what to do when she is
dismissed from her job as a cubicle serf at a midtown law
firm. Despite the exhortations of Leslie, her friend and
volunteer life coach, Anna seeks refuge in the back alleys
of craigslist, where she connects with Taj, an adherent of a
nebulous movement known as Nowism that occupies the most
self-absorbed fringes of the art world. Art, Anna decides, is what will provide the meaningful life
she’s been searching for and knows she deserves. She joins
Taj’s “crew” and is drawn into his grand experimental film
project. But making art is hard and microwaving pouch foods
is easy. Soon enough Anna finds herself distracted by myriad
other quests: remembering to ask Leslie “How are you?,”
reducing her intake of caloric drinks, and parrying her
mother’s insistence that she attend hairdressing school. But when Anna’s twenty-seven-year-old
roommate—a perpetual intern named Brie—announces her
pregnancy, it forces Anna to confront reality, setting off a
chain of events that lead to a horrifying climax of betrayal. Alina Simone’s Note to Self is a shrewdly
perceptive, hilarious, moving tale about friendship, art,
and the search for a meaningful life in an era of rampant
narcissism.
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