{"product_id":"jillian-9780143135524","title":"Jillian","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe sublimely awkward and hilarious \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Chicago Tribune)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, National Book Award 5 Under 35-garnering first novel from the acclaimed author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--now in a new edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty-four-year-old Megan may have her whole life ahead of her, but it already feels like a dead end, thanks to her dreadful job as a gastroenterologist's receptionist and her heart-clogging resentment of the success and happiness of everyone around her. But no one stokes Megan's bitterness quite like her coworker, Jillian, a grotesquely optimistic, thirty-five-year-old single mother whose chirpy positivity obscures her mounting struggles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMegan and Jillian's lives become increasingly precarious as their faulty coping mechanisms--denial, self-help books, alcohol, religion, prescription painkillers, obsessive criticism, alienated boyfriends, and, in Jillian's case, the misguided purchase of a dog--send them spiraling toward their downfalls. Wickedly authentic and brutally funny, \u003ci\u003eJillian\u003c\/i\u003e is a subversive portrait of two women trapped in cycles of self-delusion and self-destruction, each more like the other than they would care to admit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143135524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.20w x 0.50d","brand":"Halle Butler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38470896222389,"sku":"9780143135524","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5e7f3257-8db5-427a-aea6-35919e804369.jpg?v=1612927556","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/jillian-9780143135524","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}