Jillian
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"Twenty-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. Megan 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, Jillian 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"--
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Butler, H. (2020). Jillian. First edition. [New York], Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Butler, Halle. 2020. Jillian. [New York], Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Butler, Halle, Jillian. [New York], Penguin Books, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Butler, Halle. Jillian. First edition. [New York], Penguin Books, 2020.
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