By: Alina Simone
A goofy, sweet coming-of-age story that captures life among all the strange trash in the modern world.
Reading Alina Simone’s novel Note to Self sometimes feels like browsing a catalog of the strange trash in this modern world.
Simone’s funny protagonist, Anna, is suspicious, jumpy, and self-critical. She thinks she’ll get fired from her office job for time theft, fixates on Craigslist ads for fetish parties, and parrots life-coach jargon about goals and wishes. A period of unemployment throws her into a tailspin, so she jumps into a cultish art collective under the impression that it will give meaning to her life.
Simone is a talented chronicler of all the crap that narcissists think is precious metal.
She notices the absurdity in spam emails with lines like “tiny bubbles of discontent surround me because I feel as lonely as a shark in the deep blue ocean.” Anna is a case study in focus—how we lose it, how we regain it, how we lose it again—and through her, Simone explores 20-something narcissism.
Note to Self is goofy, sweet, and all the things you want in a coming-of-age story. There’s redemption in all this quotidian depravity.
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~By Sophia
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