Late-Stage Empire & the American Girl Abroad

De: Loretta Buckley

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Two Americans abroad, one year to find their footing in Madrid- or it's a desk job in the Rust Belt, for sure.

Love, job prospects, empire- in 21st century America, it's all in decline.

You've just graduated with a liberal arts degree from the Ivy League university everybody told you was the key to success, and you find yourself jobless, boyfriendless, and fit only for data entry. What do you do?

You flee the country, of course.

Two American girls take a gap year after college to teach English in Madrid, Spain. They tell their parents it's a resume booster. All they really want are boyfriends.

Lavender dumped her high-school sweetheart as soon as she got into the Ivy League college of her dreams. Five years later, she's still carrying around the mixtape he made her in 9th grade.

Mia is on the hunt for a European husband to save her from her parents and law school and America- and perhaps life itself.
By turns comic and cutting, tender and merciless, Late-Stage Empire & the American Girl Abroad is smart, funny, and unexpectedly moving—a novel that perfectly captures the chaos and adventure of being a young American expat in Madrid in 2001, while thinking out loud about 21st century American identity.