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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 sheβs been searching for and knows she deserves. She joins Tajβs βcrewβ 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 βHow are you?,β reducing her intake of caloric drinks, and parrying her motherβs insistence that she attend hairdressing school. But when Annaβs twenty-seven-year-old roommateβa perpetual intern named Brieβannounces her pregnancy, it forces Anna to confront reality, setting off a chain of events that lead to a horrifying climax of betrayal. Alina Simoneβs 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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