· sad janet by Lucie Britsch ‧ RELEASE DATE: J In Britsch’s darkly humorous debut, a deeply miserable woman is given a once-in-a . “Sad Janet is a tragicomic riot of a book—charging, foul-mouthed and tender, across the modern condition. It is an hysterically funny and slyly moving defense for feeling all there is to feel in a medicated world. Lucie Britsch’s outcast heroine, Janet, is the dog-whispering, post-Goth cousin to Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag/5(). It's not necessarily fun being inside of Janet's head for all of SAD JANET, but Lucie Britsch's debut novel is unexpectedly funny and cunning, which is surprising for a book about depression. Janet, a recent college grad, is sad and adrift following a breakup with a boy she never really liked, and an intervention from her family telling her she needs to take pills to improve her mood/5.
Serious question: when did everyone get so sad? Or was everyone always this sad and people only recently started talking about it? Or is it only women who are really, really sad and we only let men write books until Sally Rooney? I'm being facetious. Of course I am, I always am. But I'm coming off of a run of reading five books about self-aware, sad (white) millennials in a row, and I'm. Read "Sad Janet A Novel" by Lucie Britsch available from Rakuten Kobo. **Named one of the Best Books of the Summer by Lit Hub, The Millions, Refinery29, and Hey Alma. "Hilarious, wise, wicked. Hilarious, bitterly wise, and surprisingly warm, Sad Janet is the depression comedy you never knew you needed. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In Britsch's darkly comic debut, a deadpan, abrasive narrator muses on her depression.
Lucie Britsch, author of Sad Janet. "A whipsmart, biting piece of tragicomedy which manages to inspire real laughter while celebrating sadness. Hilarious, profound and deeply refreshing." Huffington Post UK. Lucie Britsch’s darkly comic debut, Sad Janet, was named one of the Best Books of the Summer by LitHub, The Millions, Refinery29, and Hey Alma, and has earned high praise: “The narrative voice of Janet in Britsch’s debut novel is a skin-tingling combination of new and necessary. It's not necessarily fun being inside of Janet's head for all of SAD JANET, but Lucie Britsch's debut novel is unexpectedly funny and cunning, which is surprising for a book about depression. Janet, a recent college grad, is sad and adrift following a breakup with a boy she never really liked, and an intervention from her family telling her she needs to take pills to improve her mood.
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