The Narcissism of Small Differences
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"Joe Keen and Ana Urbanek have been a couple for a long time, with all the requisite lulls and temptations, yet they remain unmarried and without children or a mortgage, as their Midwestern values (and parents) seem to require. Now on the cusp of forty, they are both working at jobs that they're not even sure they believe in anymore, but with significantly varying returns. Ana is successful, Joe is floundering--both in limbo, caught somewhere between mainstream and alternative culture, sincerity and irony, achievement and arrested development. Set against the backdrop of bottomed-out 2009 Detroit, a once-great American city now in transition, part decaying and part striving to be reborn, The Narcissism of Small Differences is the story of an aging creative class, doomed to ask the questions: Is it possible to outgrow irony? Does not having children make you one? Is there even such a thing as selling out anymore? More than a comedy of manners, The Narcissism of Small Differences is a comedy of compromise: the financial compromises we make to feed ourselves; the moral compromises that justify our questionable actions; the everyday compromises we all make just to survive in the world. Yet it's also about the consequences of those compromises and the people we become because of them. By turns wry and ribald, kitschy and gritty, poignant and thoughtful, The Narcissism of Small Differences is the story of Joe and Ana's life together, their relationship, their tribes, their work and passions, and their comic quest for a life that is their own and no one else's."--Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: 330 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781617758188
1617758183
SUBJECTS
Unmarried couples -- Fiction.
Middle-aged persons -- Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Two thousands (Decade) -- Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Social problem fiction.