Alexandra Tanner's Worry is a late Millennial nightmare --- frustrating, addictive, uncomfortable, and fun.
has to contend with this question from the jump. Jules Gold, a 28-year-old edtech employee living in Brooklyn, has good reason to be thinking about herself: her life is falling apart. We follow Jules through a breakup, a probable social media addiction, and most significantly her younger sister Poppy’s reintroduction into her life, getting her thoughts for the most part from her own mouth.
Throughout my reading experience, I wrestled with the novel’s main character. Jules’s strife bored me; she’s always low on money, yet more or less financially stable. I find myself wondering what the plot of this novel would even be if it focused on someone without a checking account flexible enough to order expensive mattresses .
The other side of the story here is that the novel reflects the time period I’ve spent living in New York. One scene in particular, where Jules’s ex’s girlfriend takes a picture with a blooming corpse flower at the NYBG, gave me a ghostly feeling of familiarity. I worked at the NYBG that summer; I saw the corpse flower bloom. Rather than endearing me to the novel, this almost became a point against it.
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