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When You Finish Saving the World
When You Finish Saving the World | Jesse Eisenberg
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From playwright, author, and Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg, When You Finish Saving the World tells the moving and evocative story of three individuals working to understand each other and themselves: Nathan, a father learning to connect with his newborn son; Rachel, a young college student seeking to find her place in a relationship and in life, before marriage to Nathan; and Ziggy, their son, a teenager hoping to figure out where he came from, and where he's headed. The shifts between time frames in these characters' lives span more than a decade and eloquently capture the complexities of growing up, having children, and fitting in.
Eisenberg—the star of The Social Network, The Squid and the Whale, and Zombieland—stars as Nathan; Kaitlin Dever, star of Booksmart and Unbelieveable, is the voice of Rachel; and Finn Wolfhard, star of Stranger Things, plays Ziggy, their son.
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llcoolnate
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Oh what the hell.
Thankful it's free.

Literary_Siren 😂😂 4y
Pageturner1 Didn‘t know he wrote. Too bad it wasn‘t good. Didn‘t lose anything 😀 4y
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llcoolnate

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This story is about & told by each member of a family. I had no idea whether to bail or listen but so-so it. Turns out it was excellent. The 1st (the author) spoke fast & was so irritating initially I nearly bailed. I‘m not a Finn Wolfhard fan, but he was superb as the 2nd narrator. Then I got to the 3rd narrator & I was blown away. The story is not in sequential order, and if it were it‘d lose all its impact. That‘s all I‘ll say, no spoilers.

julesG I have to stack it now. 4y
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