Crush by Ada Calhoun
Crush is a sharp, funny, and revelatory book about holding on to everything it’s possible to love—friends, children, parents, passion, lovers, husbands, good books, and most of all one’s own deep sense of purpose.
This “fever dream of a book” explores “the sly ways we delude ourselves into accepting what’s good enough and the liberating ways we can recover our joie de vivre as well as our autonomy.”
It is a novel, but it reads like a memoir, especially when listening to the audiobook, with “minimal dialogue, even fewer scenes…we spend most of the novel inside the narrator's head.”
If you are a Gen X lady and you haven’t read Why We Can’t Sleep, also by Ada Calhoun, you need to go do that right now, please!
