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  • Written by: Marina Keegan
  • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
  • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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The Opposite of Loneliness

Written by: Marina Keegan
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
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Publisher's Summary

Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash.

As her family, friends, and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her unforgettable last essay for the Yale Daily News, "The Opposite of Loneliness", went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. She had struck a chord.

Even though she was just 22 when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. The Opposite of Loneliness is an assem­blage of Marina's essays and stories that, like The Last Lecture, articulates the universal struggle that all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to make an impact on the world.
©2014 Tracy and Kevin Keegan (P)2014 Tantor
Biographies & Memoirs Essays Literature & Fiction World Literature Literary Fiction
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What the critics say

"Keegan brings self-awareness to the collective insecurity of her peers even as she captures it with a precision that only comes from someone who feels it too. How unfortunate that she will never know the value readers will find in her work." ( Publishers Weekly)

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Very disappointing

This book was not for me and I struggled to get through it. Despite the hype, I found both the nonfiction and fiction monotonous and quite boring.

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