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Hey, Good Luck Out There
Hey, Good Luck Out There: A Novel | Georgia Toews
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Subversive, captivating and vividly attuned to both the extraordinary and the mundane, Georgia Toews' debut novel Hey, Good Luck Out There is a furious and hilarious journey through the relentless, soul-baring world of addiction and recovery. After an amazingly unpleasant pizza party intervention, our twenty-two-year-old narrator checks into a women's rehab facility, confined "for her own safety" without meaningful contact with the outside world. Her and her fellow patients' only escapes are stilted phone calls with their disappointed and concerned parents, daily meetings in the form of inspirational speeches from wealthy ex-alcoholics and lifestyle gurus, visits to the doctor, and clandestine trips to a dingy internet caf with awful, overpriced coffee. For our narrator, a neon-pink journal gifted by her grandmother with gold embossed letters on the front--"Let Them Eat Cake!"--is her only comfort amid an endless carousel of strangeness and unease. When she is discharged from rehab after thirty punishing days, returned to Toronto's streets without resources, a job or an apartment, and tasked with staying clean despite a seemingly bottomless urge to give up, the book asks: What next? What happens in the aftermath of your lowest low? What does rebuilding a life really look like? Alone, and at war with an intrusive inner creature, at last she begins the process of making a home for herself in the world. Hey, Good Luck Out There is an unvarnished and intoxicating reckoning with the terror and hope of recovery, as well as a tender, striking portrait of a young woman in search of herself within the wreckage of her youth. It introduces a dynamic new voice in fiction: Georgia Toews is at once unguardedly truthful, gritty, and darkly funny, with a sardonic, wholly original sense of the absurd.
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shawnmooney
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Here are my July picks for #bookspin. The only change from June is I‘ve replaced #12 and #17. Oh, and gussied up the font. 😜 2/3rds of them are e-books languishing on my iPad and the rest are shorter books on my shelves that I‘d love to get to.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 9mo
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4⭐️/5⭐️

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Kazzie
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The first part - the part in rehab - wasn‘t as interesting as the bits after. With the exception of her abortion, which she discusses honestly but without unnecessary fanfare. Her eventual triumph feels hard earned and well deserved. The actions of millennial men, who should know better but often act outside the bounds of consent, are despicable but ring true, as do her responses and feelings about them.

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TheKidUpstairs
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When your small town suddenly gets name dropped in your current read!

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Bookalong
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A contemporary, darkly funny novel about addiction and recovery. I have read so many memoirs on addiction and recovery but in fiction form not many, maybe thats why this was harder for me to get into at times. I do feel this is a solid debut and will be on the lookout for what Toews does next. This is another book that falls into that "sad girl lit" category. #bookreview