HALLE BUTLER
THE NEW ME
A depressed temp secretary at a furniture design showroom monologues at you for many pages.
"In its ability to induce paralyzing existential depression, the fiction of Halle Butler is perhaps matched only by those Black Friday news stories in which grandmothers get trampled in front of stacks of fifty-five-inch TVs." -New Yorker
"[Millie's] rants would make Dostoyevsky’s Underground Man beam." -The New York Times
"A brilliant excoriation of the marketers telling us that life offers an unending parade of do-overs. Butler nails the unspoken hierarchies of contemporary office life in this wry and utterly terrifying work." -Vulture
"In just under two hundred pages, Halle Butler made me laugh and cry enough times to feel completely reborn." -Paris Review
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