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  • Written by: Halle Butler
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  • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
  • 3.1 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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The New Me

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Publisher's Summary

"[A] definitive work of millennial literature...wretchedly riveting." (Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker)

Girls Office Space + My Year of Rest and Relaxation + anxious sweating = The New Me.” (Entertainment Weekly

I'm still trying to make the dream possible: still might finish my cleaning project, still might sign up for that yoga class, still might, still might. I step into the shower and almost faint, an image of taking the day by the throat and bashing its head against the wall floating in my mind.

Thirty-year-old Millie just can't pull it together. She spends her days working a thankless temp job and her nights alone in her apartment, fixating on all the ways she might change her situation - her job, her attitude, her appearance, her life. Then she watches TV until she falls asleep, and the cycle begins again.

When the possibility of a full-time job offer arises, it seems to bring the better life she's envisioning within reach. But with it also comes the paralyzing realization, lurking just beneath the surface, of how hollow that vision has become. 

"Masterfully cringe-inducing" (Chicago Tribune), The New Me is the must-listen new novel by National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and Granta Best Young American novelist Halle Butler. 

Named a Best Book of the Decade by Vox, and a Best Book of 2019 by Vanity Fair, Vulture, Chicago Tribune, Mashable, Bustle, and NPR

©2019 Halle Butler (P)2019 Penguin Audio

What the critics say

"Ingenious . . . masterfully cringe-inducing and unsparingly critical . . . The New Me continues the author's interrogation of the disappointments of the workplace and the diminished rewards of the so-called American dream...[and] explores self-improvement at its absolute, impractical, soul-crushing worst...[Butler's] wit and insight keep the pages turning." —Chicago Tribune

"Few authors capture the acidic angst of downtrodden millennials like Butler, whose heroines, trapped in precarious and soulless work, take comfort in consumption, in cynicism, in ill-fated self-improvement." —Huffington Post

"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 

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I really hated this book

I really hated this book and it was a struggle to finish. I had to force myself because it was for a book club. I regret using the credit

there was one person in our book club that liked the book come or thought it was okay. the rest of us didn't like it. we all didn't like the main character, the lack of an actual story, secondary characters who just popped in and out for what feels like no reason at all. The whining was the worst part of it.

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