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"The best thing you'll read this year." —Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun Age
A raw, tenderly comic, and perfectly off-kilter novel about a woman who occasionally finds herself in "The Pit”—a delirious state of semiconsciousness—and the improbable, sometimes imagined people who meet her there.
Vita Woods is on the brink. She produces a popular podcast and lives with her successful doctor boyfriend, Max, with whom the sex is great and the future promising. Her brilliant if unreliable sister, Gracie, is her best friend and sparring partner. And her steadfast goldfish, Whitney Houston, brightens even her dimmest days. But as much as things are going right, the days are dark. Vita is not leaving the house. In fact, she can barely make it out of bed.
Instead, she spends long, blurred hours falling in and out of The Pit, dead to the world and to herself. For months, Vita has been sick with an illness that no doctor, not even Max, can diagnose. And recently, Luigi, a Renaissance poet nursing a 500-year-old heartbreak, has started showing up at her bedside, bringing snacks and unsolicited romantic advice. He says he’s come to release her. The issue is: he may be a ghost, an apparition of her sickly mind.
Then, when an unexpected mix-up pushes her into the path of her upstairs neighbors, Vita finds friendship—and perhaps more—in the apartment above. But something about her "condition" keeps nagging at her. What if the problem is Vita herself? Because as far as anyone can prove . . . there’s nothing wrong with her.
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Release date
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780593717370
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780593717370
- File size: 800 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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March 1, 2024
Weinberg (The Truants) takes a stylistic turn in this short, sharp read about friendship and recovery, inspired by her experience with long COVID. Vita Woods was living a good life, but now she cannot get out of bed, might be hallucinating, and no one can figure out what is wrong. Prepub Alert.
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Starred review from August 1, 2024
Vita Woods knows something is deeply wrong with her, and she would give anything to know what it is--and how to treat it. She's been tested for Lyme disease, long Covid, fibromyalgia, and any other illness involving extreme fatigue, pain, lightheadedness, and the crushing depression she calls ""The Pit,"" but her symptoms persist. Her chronic illness leaves her with good days and bad, but the bad days are quickly starting to outnumber the good. Vita's doctor boyfriend, Max, is unflinchingly patient with her, but Vita knows even he can't understand the depth of her invisible symptoms. When an unexpected flood turns a chance meeting with her upstairs neighbors into an odd friendship, Vita realizes just how much her health has colored her entire outlook on life. Weinberg (The Truants, 2020) explores the trials of chronic illness through a darkly comic lens by calibrating Vita's narration style to her energy levels. A 500-year-old Renaissance poet appears as a figment of Vita's imagination and interjects chapters from Vita's healthier years to contrast with the monotony of her current reality. Readers looking for a companion to Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest And Relaxation (2018) and Meg Mason's Sorrow and Bliss (2021) will devour Weinberg's latest.COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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