At 31 years old, Casey feels like she should be more solid in life. She's been working on her novel for six painstaking years in between shifts as a waitress, slowly attempting to pay off massive student loan debts while paying rent at the only place she can afford (a potting shed behind her brother's friend's massive house). Compounding those problems, she's also dealing with the unexpected death of her mother several months earlier and a love life that just keep turning up duds. Though the novel is set in 1997, so many of these issues echo through to the present day. While the writers Casey interacts with can be a bit hipstery, the story of a woman working her way through grief, panic, health scares, and a confusing love life are classic and wonderfully told.
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