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Is the real world ready for Jessica Darling?Initially it seems that she’s living the elusive NEW YORK dream. She’s subletting a flat with her best friend, Hope, working for a magazine that actually utilizes her psychology degree, and still fond of Marcus Flutie, the charismatic addict-turned-Buddhist who first captivated her at sixteen.Needless to say, reality is more difficult than dreamy clichés. She and Hope share bunk beds in the “Cupcake”―the girlie pastel bedroom normally occupied by twelve-year-old twins. Their Brooklyn neighborhood is way better suited to “breeders,” and she and Hope split the rent with the promiscuous senior high school pal, Manda, and her “genderqueer boifriend.” Freelancing for an obscure journal can’t put a dent in Jessica’s student education loans, so she’s eking out a full time income by babysitting her young niece and lamenting that she, unlike almost all of her friends, can’t postpone adulthood by going back to school.Yet it’s the ever-changing relationship with Marcus that leaves her most unsettled. On the ripe age of twenty-three, he’s just starting his freshman year at Princeton University. Is she ready to give up her imperfect yet invigorating post-college life because her on-again/off-again soul mates asks her to…marry him?Jessica has one week to react to Marcus’s perplexing marriage proposal. During this time period, she gains surprising wisdom from unexpected sources, including a popular talk show shrink, a drag queen named Royalle G. Biv, and yes, even her parents. However the most shocking confession concerns two people she thought had nothing to cover up: Hope and Marcus.Will this knowledge inspire Jessica to stop an environment of late-night literary soirees, art openings, and downtown drunken karaoke to go back to New Jersey and become with the one man who’s gripped her heart for a long time? Jessica ponders this and other life choices with her signature snark and hyper-intense insight, so that it is the most tumultuous and memorable week of her twenty-something life.
