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2016., Metatron Call No: QWF Fic Bar Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Someone at a party describes you as an indoor kind of girl.· What does that even mean? You donœt know, but you spend the following week obsessing about it. You watch three seasons of Keeping Up with the Kardashians in two days. You get a pet turtle. You absent-mindedly paint what ends up looking like your high schoolœs football coach, but naked. You go backpacking in Australia for a few months. You try speaking with a New York accent in public, just to see if people like that version of you better. The comment still haunts you. An indoor kind of girl.· You feel like youœre that person, but youœre not that person. In Frankie Barnetœs exquisite and funny debut collection of stories, characters stumble through their daily existence, frequently feeling confused, rejected, bored, disillusioned or misunderstood. Metatron is proud to present these five stunningly imaginative tales, which signal the arrival of a gifted writer.
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2022., Metatron Press Call No: GN QWF Fic Bar Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Kim: A Novel Idea is a graphic literary novel about a lonely millennial named Frankie, her boyfriend Jacob, their talking cat Catman, and a cast of online characters, including The Kardashians. Frankie is obsessed with The Kardashians. Scrolling through photos of them helps her escape the difficulties of her life--her boyfriend's grief, her feelings towards her career, her fear of failure, her sexual past. Frankie is sick with contemporary malaise and part of a generation that gets their information from Google Search. A generation who are "alone in their private universes, doing their best." Kim: A Novel Idea is hilarious in the sense it is brutally honest; real in the sense it is relatable. Exploring politics--personal, political, social--all while using the personal to comment on university writing programs, intergenerational wealth, fame, #MeToo, love, and our multiple selves--there is something lovable about Frankie's insufferable attitude towards life; something deeply relieving about her self-doubt in that she is "never going to make anything of my goddamn, pathetic life" all while stuck in a cycle of a celebrity marketing ring that targets young women's insecurities about their bodies. This book is hyperaware of the echo chamber it is in, and with great clarity and insight, dissects it from the inside. Kim: A Novel Idea gives us insight into the downfalls of contemporary living.
