Writers & Lovers

Loved this character driven novel featuring Casey, a 30-something in the 90's who has been living whimsically since college. As the book opens, she is trying to finish writing her first novel while waitressing at a trendy restaurant and living in squalor, with an astronomical student loan debt. Oh, and her mother recently suddenly died. In spite of all that, she trudges forward believing in herself. It gets worse before it gets better and there is a happy ending. But it's the story of her growing resilience set against the backstory of her younger self that makes the book so compelling to me.

One sentence synopsis... Casey is a struggling writer whose life is a series of deaths, tragedies, and grief... yet somehow every man she meets falls over his feet to ask her out. .

Read it if you like... navel gazing writers writing about wrought writing. The main character is like if “Girls” was only about Hannah being a self-centered, obnoxious artist but with Adam Driver as her boyfriend. .

Dream casting... the only person who could redeem Casey on film is the magnetic Merritt Wever. Matthew Gray Gubler as Silas, one third of the love triangle.