![]() ![]() True, the US bounced back from the Stone Age more quickly than predicted. Not one lame-ass position she’d copped since bore the faintest relation to her formal qualifications. During the so-called “recovery” she moved out at last, sharing cramped, grungy digs with contemporaries who also had Ivy League degrees, in history, or political science, and who also brewed coffee, bussed tables, and sold those old smart phones that shattered and you had to charge all the time at Apple stores. At least her little brother Jarred was in high school and could keep her company, but it was humiliating, having toiled on that dopey BA only to trial novel recipes for peanut-butter brownies with mint-flavored chocolate chips. So how could they grasp the plight of their elder daughter? For six long years after graduation Florence had to live with her parents in Carroll Gardens, and that big blot of nothingness still blighted her résumé. Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Lionel Shriver's novels include The New Republic, So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. ![]() The following is from Lionel Shriver’s novel, The Mandibles. ![]()
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