Really Good, Actually : Discussion Thread

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning in the wake of an unexpected breakup, from comedian, essayist, and award-winning screenwriter Monica Heisey

Maggie is fine. She’s doing really good, actually. Sure, she’s broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days, but at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new life as a Surprisingly Young Divorcée™.

Now she has time to take up nine hobbies, eat hamburgers at 4 am, and “get back out there” sex-wise. With the support of her tough-loving academic advisor, Merris; her newly divorced friend, Amy; and her group chat (naturally), Maggie barrels through her first year of single life, intermittently dating, occasionally waking up on the floor and asking herself tough questions along the way.

Laugh-out-loud funny and filled with sharp observations, Really Good, Actually is a tender and bittersweet comedy that lays bare the uncertainties of modern love, friendship, and our search for that thing we like to call “happiness”. This is a remarkable debut from an unforgettable new voice in fiction.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

7 chapters / 27%

(view spoiler)[ I flipped to an audiobook and I'm actually really enjoying this
I mean, as much as you can with someone going through a divorce
the dating scene does sound scary, especially for someone well over my 30's and married for over 20 years! lol

I like the friends and the support and even how dramatic they are

her messages to her ex are really awful though lol (hide spoiler)]