In the midst of god sending her signs through Instagram and Spotify telling her to break up with her girlfriend, twenty-seven-year-old Norma meets a new therapist for one reason: she really needs to write again. With only one story left to finish her collection, Norma is desperate for an answer: should she leave her girlfriend in order to finish her manuscript? When her new therapist diagnoses her with depersonalization/derealization disorder, Norma insists she doesn't have it: it's just Oblivion, the thing that started happening to her when she was two and a half. Haunted by SSRI side effects, her girlfriend's kindness, her father's incessant calls, and a world that becomes less hazily fictional by the day, Norma has never felt crazier. And whenever she attempts to write The Last Story, Norma is faced with the reality and unrealities of her past, the society she lives in, and everything that she's ever believed about life, writing, and love.
- Publisher: Vintage US
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Publication date:
25/06/2024
- ISBN: 9780593686782
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Page extent:
416
- Format: Paperback
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Dimensions:
204 mm x 133 mm
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