Claire Reads Books | The New Me by Halle Butler | What Is Millennial Fiction? @ClaireReadsBooks | Uploaded April 2019 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
My thoughts on The New Me by Halle Butler, plus musings about the qualities that define recent "millennial" fiction.

Note: I only included books I've read in this discussion, so if you have others that you think would qualify, please share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Books mentioned:

THE NEW ME by Halle Butler

SEVERANCE by Ling Ma

CHEMISTRY by Weike Wang

MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION by Ottessa Moshfegh

PAVANE FOR A DEAD PRINCESS by Park Min-gyu

CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN by Sayaka Murata

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Articles mentioned:

"Halle Butler's 'The New Me' Is An Office Novel For A Precarious Age" by Jia Tolentino: newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/15/halle-butlers-the-new-me-is-an-office-novel-for-a-precarious-age

"Let's Celebrate the Stinky Heroines of Repulsive Realist Fiction" by Hillary Kelly: vulture.com/2019/03/halle-butlers-the-new-me-and-the-trend-of-repulsive-realism.html

"How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation" by Anne Helen Petersen: buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work

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