There's Nothing Wrong with Her

De: Kate Weinberg

Duración: 7 h

Resumen del Editor

"Beautiful."—Sarah Jessica Parker

"The best thing you'll read this year."—Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun Age

A raw, tenderly comic, and perfectly off-kilter novel about a woman who occasionally finds herself in "The Pit”—a delirious state of semiconsciousness—and the improbable, sometimes imagined people who meet her there.

Vita Woods is on the brink. She produces a popular podcast and lives with her successful doctor boyfriend, Max, with whom the sex is great and the future promising. Her brilliant if unreliable sister, Gracie, is her best friend and sparring partner. And her steadfast goldfish, Whitney Houston, brightens even her dimmest days. But as much as things are going right, the days are dark. Vita is not leaving the house. In fact, she can barely make it out of bed.

Instead, she spends long, blurred hours falling in and out of The Pit, dead to the world and to herself. For months, Vita has been sick with an illness that no doctor, not even Max, can diagnose. And recently, Luigi, a Renaissance poet nursing a 500-year-old heartbreak, has started showing up at her bedside, bringing snacks and unsolicited romantic advice. He says he’s come to release her. The issue is: he may be a ghost, an apparition of her sickly mind.

Then, when an unexpected mix-up pushes her into the path of her upstairs neighbors, Vita finds friendship—and perhaps more—in the apartment above. But something about her "condition" keeps nagging at her. What if the problem is Vita herself? Because as far as anyone can prove . . . there’s nothing wrong with her.

©2024 Kate Weinberg (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Kate Weinberg has written a gorgeous, engrossing and urgent book. Her unforgettable characters wrestle with a monster that stalks so many lives. Read this for the ones you love who have fought the same long fight."—Kevin Sullivan, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

"Weinberg takes a stylistic turn in this short, sharp read about friendship and recovery, inspired by her experience with long COVID."—Library Journal

"It's so beautiful. And so painful. And so gorgeously descriptive of a devastating chapter that so many of us just don't know or understand even, with all compassion."—Sarah Jessica Parker