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Publisher's summary
"[A] definitive work of millennial literature...wretchedly riveting." (Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker)
“Girls + Office Space + My Year of Rest and Relaxation + anxious sweating = The New Me.” (Entertainment Weekly)
I'm still trying to make the dream possible: still might finish my cleaning project, still might sign up for that yoga class, still might, still might. I step into the shower and almost faint, an image of taking the day by the throat and bashing its head against the wall floating in my mind.
Thirty-year-old Millie just can't pull it together. She spends her days working a thankless temp job and her nights alone in her apartment, fixating on all the ways she might change her situation - her job, her attitude, her appearance, her life. Then she watches TV until she falls asleep, and the cycle begins again.
When the possibility of a full-time job offer arises, it seems to bring the better life she's envisioning within reach. But with it also comes the paralyzing realization, lurking just beneath the surface, of how hollow that vision has become.
"Masterfully cringe-inducing" (Chicago Tribune), The New Me is the must-listen new novel by National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and Granta Best Young American novelist Halle Butler.
Named a Best Book of the Decade by Vox, and a Best Book of 2019 by Vanity Fair, Vulture, Chicago Tribune, Mashable, Bustle, and NPR
Critic reviews
“Wake up, look in the mirror, swear it will all be different today. Sound familiar? Here's that feeling in novel form: Meet Millie, a 30-year-old flailing around in dissatisfaction. A job offer seems to promise reinvention - but, sadly, easy transformations are for caterpillars, not lonely, anxiety-ridden women.” (Elle)
“Masterfully cringe-inducing and unsparingly critical, The New Me...[makes] the reader squirm and laugh out loud simultaneously...Butler’s] wit and insight keep the pages turning.” (Chicago Tribune)
“A dark comedy of female rage. Halle Butler is a first-rate satirist of the horror show being sold to us as Modern Femininity. She is Thomas Bernhard in a bad mood, showing us the futility of betterment in an increasingly paranoid era of self-improvement. Hilarious.” (Catherine Lacey, author of Nobody Is Ever Missing and The Answers)
“A bleak and brutal book that exposes a nearly unbearable futility to life in the workforce, not to mention life outside it. Butler’s vision is funny and raw and dark - a cautionary tale, hilarious and intimate, against growing up and making do.” (Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet)
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- mfseegs
- 04-24-19
Might have been an ok read...
..but not a great audiobook. The author/narrator's vocal fray is annoying to point of being distracting and at time teeters on infuriating. I don't know if that's just her voice or if she's doing it on purpose to really hit home how banal the characters are. The story itself isn't really worth the slog so far. I still have about half of it left to get through but wanted to post this review as a warning to anyone considering getting this audiobook - definitely preview before purchasing.
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- ATaps
- 10-14-21
amazing! the voice is on purpose & it's genius!
my god, this whole book was spot on when it comes to a certain kind of ennui. l mean, yeah, it's a treacly kind of "poor me" but that's the POINT. You're not supposed to like Millie, but at the same time you might find that you share a little more with her than you're generally comfortable admitting. some have complained about the narrators voice but it matches the character perfectly. and it's not distracting once you figure out the grain of WHO the voice is. it adds so much to understanding and disliking the character, but don't worry she'll tunnel into a little bit and you won't absolutely detest her the whole time. it'll just become more like a slow burn of "oh dear God this girl"
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- Siobhan Ricci
- 06-09-21
A flawless book
The New Me is a treasure of a book. It’s short but very impactful and gives you exactly what you want from a good book. It’s about a girl who is struggling to make it in the world. And you’re in her head in an unrelenting way, a barrage of experiences and thoughts, a lot of which are negative, which for me is relatable. The crux of the book is this character accepting her struggles, while wanting to become a new person, hence the title. It’s a joyous ride through comical hardships.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-29-21
Skillfully written
Great book. Not perfect but a solid work of millennial office fiction. The reader is excellent. I wanted more of a climax when Mille discovers she won’t be getting the job but, the well-written characters and themes make up for minor let-downs in the plot. Would definitely recommend to almost everyone.
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- SJ Burton
- 09-02-20
About nothing really but still addictive somehow!
First of all, the narration by the author may annoy some people as it is quite monotone, but persevere if you can. It gives a perfect insight into the character and I read in an interview that Butler actually started this book for voice performing. I couldn't get past the first little while of her other book Jillian, but there is something simultaneously revolting and engaging about the character who leads this story. She's desperate, lonely and bored but realistically aren't we all sometimes? There is a brutal honesty in the writing that is refreshing and I couldn't stop listening. Will be well suited to young women listeners I think. Lots there to connect with.
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- Jess
- 07-25-20
Wonderfully depressing
As soon as I heard the narrator authors’s voice, I wanted to return this book. After giving it 5 minutes, I thought she was perfect. I already am listening to her other book.
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- Alfonso Delgado
- 06-15-19
Succinct description of quite desperation
Very powerful and sublime description of current emptiness and quiet desperation all too common today.
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- Shari VanderWerf
- 09-06-23
Depressing unfunny portrait of entitled milennials
I first read Butler's other book Jillian and thought it was intriguing enough to give this one a try. Save your time/money. It is virtually the same book, peopled with alcoholic, entitled millennials who do little more than ruminate on what horrible people they are. Her characters do not learn or grow. They are all pretty despicable. The endings of her books are abrupt and unsatisfying. Also, if she publishes another book, she should let someone else do the performance. Her vocal affect is annoying.
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- Caileen
- 06-25-23
The best the worst
I loved this book and it made me laugh out loud but man I would hate Millie but man I have BEEN Millie. I want more.
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- Emily
- 08-03-21
Boring
I thought this would be funny and insightful which it may be for some people. But I found it boring and I couldn’t get past chapter 12 I think? Maybe I’ll finish it. But honestly kinda depressing and messed with my mental lol
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In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. A woman lives in a house with all her ex-boyfriends. A toxic friendship grows up around a drug that makes you invisible. An ancient ritual might heal you of anything—if you bury yourself alive. These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike.
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Audiobook is defective
- By ᵔᴥᵔ on 09-22-22
By: Ling Ma
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Happy Hour
- By: Marlowe Granados
- Narrated by: Bronwyn Szabo
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Refreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent. Isa Epley is all of 21 years old and already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. She arrives in New York City for a summer of adventure with her best friend, one newly blonde Gala Novak. They have little money, but that’s hardly going to stop them from having a good time.
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Wanted to like it.
- By Sarai on 09-14-21
By: Marlowe Granados
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Acts of Desperation
- By: Megan Nolan
- Narrated by: Lauren Coe
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power. After a brief, all-consuming romance, he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealous obsession and longing. If he ever comes back to her, she resolves to hang onto him and his love at all costs, even if it destroys her.
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Wonderful and tortured
- By Dr Sophie Henshaw on 05-01-21
By: Megan Nolan
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Jillian
- A Novel
- By: Halle Butler
- Narrated by: Halle Butler
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Twenty-four-year-old Megan may have her whole life ahead of her, but it already feels like a dead end, thanks to her dreadful job as a gastroenterologist's receptionist and her heart-clogging resentment of the success and happiness of everyone around her. But no one stokes Megan's bitterness quite like her coworker, Jillian, a grotesquely optimistic, 35-year-old single mother whose chirpy positivity obscures her mounting struggles.
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Nobody Writes (or Performs) Like Halle Butler
- By Aaron S. Berman on 07-25-22
By: Halle Butler
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Acts of Service
- A Novel
- By: Lillian Fishman
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Eve has an adoring girlfriend, an impulsive streak, and a secret fear that she’s wasting her brief youth with just one person. So one evening she posts some nudes online. This is how Eve meets Olivia, and through Olivia the charismatic Nathan. Despite her better instincts, the three soon begin a relationship—one that disturbs Eve as much as it enthralls her.
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A pleasant but disturbing surprise!
- By Anonymous User on 10-04-23
By: Lillian Fishman
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A Touch of Jen
- By: Beth Morgan
- Narrated by: Casey Turner
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together. But they are bound by a shared obsession with Jen, a beautiful former coworker of Remy’s who now seems to be following her bliss as a globe-trotting jewelry designer. In and outside the bedroom, Remy and Alicia's entire relationship revolves around fantasies of Jen, whose every Instagram caption, outfit, and new age mantra they know by heart. Imagine their confused excitement when they run into Jen, in the flesh, and she invites them on a surfing trip to the Hamptons.
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Speechless
- By Schabel on 07-16-21
By: Beth Morgan
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Bliss Montage
- Stories
- By: Ling Ma
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. A woman lives in a house with all her ex-boyfriends. A toxic friendship grows up around a drug that makes you invisible. An ancient ritual might heal you of anything—if you bury yourself alive. These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike.
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Audiobook is defective
- By ᵔᴥᵔ on 09-22-22
By: Ling Ma
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Happy Hour
- By: Marlowe Granados
- Narrated by: Bronwyn Szabo
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Refreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent. Isa Epley is all of 21 years old and already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. She arrives in New York City for a summer of adventure with her best friend, one newly blonde Gala Novak. They have little money, but that’s hardly going to stop them from having a good time.
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Wanted to like it.
- By Sarai on 09-14-21
By: Marlowe Granados
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Acts of Desperation
- By: Megan Nolan
- Narrated by: Lauren Coe
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power. After a brief, all-consuming romance, he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealous obsession and longing. If he ever comes back to her, she resolves to hang onto him and his love at all costs, even if it destroys her.
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Wonderful and tortured
- By Dr Sophie Henshaw on 05-01-21
By: Megan Nolan
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A Very Nice Girl
- A Novel
- By: Imogen Crimp
- Narrated by: Olivia Forrest
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Anna knows she has talent, but she’s always felt out of place in the world of opera. A first-year student at a prestigious London conservatoire, she lives in a grim series of rented rooms with her friend Laurie, a sharp-tongued waitress and aspiring writer. Her days are devoted to highly competitive auditions and long, straining rehearsals. At night, she sings jazz in an expensive bar, relying on her popularity with the inebriated businessmen to make rent and stay afloat alongside her wealthy peers.
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Plausible.
- By Whitney on 02-16-22
By: Imogen Crimp
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Animal
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Taddeo
- Narrated by: Emma Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruelties of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who can help her make sense of her past. In the sweltering hills above Los Angeles, Joan unravels the horrific event she witnessed as a child - that has haunted her every waking moment - while forging the power to finally strike back.
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Should come with a lot of trigger warnings
- By Harry on 07-13-21
By: Lisa Taddeo
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Nightbitch
- A Novel
- By: Rachel Yoder
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's demands, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck. In the mirror, her canines suddenly look sharper than she remembers. Her husband, who travels for work five days a week, casually dismisses her fears from faraway hotel rooms.
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If you don’t get it just say so
- By Stephanie Rzonca on 02-19-22
By: Rachel Yoder
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Boy Parts
- By: Eliza Clark
- Narrated by: Eliza Clark
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina's relationship with her obsessive best friend and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention....
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A modern American psycho but British
- By sofia on 09-23-21
By: Eliza Clark
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Luster
- A Novel
- By: Raven Leilani
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Edie is stumbling her way through her 20s - sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage - with rules.
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Spellbinding
- By Nana on 08-07-20
By: Raven Leilani
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein
- By: Coco Mellors
- Narrated by: Kit Griffiths
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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