Suzanne Scanlon | Promising Young Women | Emily Books
“Anyway now I don’t care about having a voice.”
“anywhere else, this would be serious.”
“Heather didn’t have these hangups; only her voice had come to seem like too much of herself in the world.”
“We could only agree on Madonna.”
“She’d heard that this hospital specialized in treating pretty young girls.”
“baby cat scratcher”
“The allusion to Tennessee Williams was so heavy, so obvious, that no one spoke of it.”
“Like who Kubrick was.”
“This was in the early nineties.”
“but she was only a nun, she said, and her opinion didn’t matter.”
“It is competitive in tone. Which is how it often goes.”
“It all just sort of happened.”
”Friends made everything so much worse.”
Can’t wait to read this.
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