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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35900387
Jesus Christ. Talk about audiobooks that made me openly weep in a public park while walking my dog.
I recently have kind of nailed down both my taste in books and the genre that I write as "characters with bonkers amount of trauma that somehow end up in a comedy story", and this is exactly that. Both the bonkers trauma and the hilarious comedy are top-notch. Absolutely S-tier. Trust me, I also laughed a lot, insanely, in front of onlookers in a second public park while listening to this book as well.
Yeah, it's tied up a bit too neatly at the end. I don't love love the end. But God. The amount that I relate to the main character- from her cute moments to her unhinged alcoholic moments to her completely-gut-wrenching SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER- shit. There were so many times that this book could have turned into some cringey thing where Eleanor was punished and ostracized for being her balls-to-the-wall-WTF-self, but that never happened. It was gentle and comforting, even when it was super fucking dark. IDK how the author did it. But yeah, everybody should read this book.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35900387
Jesus Christ. Talk about audiobooks that made me openly weep in a public park while walking my dog.
I recently have kind of nailed down both my taste in books and the genre that I write as "characters with bonkers amount of trauma that somehow end up in a comedy story", and this is exactly that. Both the bonkers trauma and the hilarious comedy are top-notch. Absolutely S-tier. Trust me, I also laughed a lot, insanely, in front of onlookers in a second public park while listening to this book as well.
Yeah, it's tied up a bit too neatly at the end. I don't love love the end. But God. The amount that I relate to the main character- from her cute moments to her unhinged alcoholic moments to her completely-gut-wrenching SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER- shit. There were so many times that this book could have turned into some cringey thing where Eleanor was punished and ostracized for being her balls-to-the-wall-WTF-self, but that never happened. It was gentle and comforting, even when it was super fucking dark. IDK how the author did it. But yeah, everybody should read this book.
