Really Good, Actually — Monica Heisey

An unabashedly honest and hilarious portrait of a life gone slightly off the rails in the wake of a devastating breakup, an irresistible debut novel full of sharp observations about love and sex, friendship and family, and this post-romantic era -- from essayist, comedian, and award-winning screenwriter Monica Heisey

Maggie is fine. She's doing really good, actually. Sure, she's completely broke and her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days (not that she's counting) . . . but at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new life as a Surprisingly Young Divorcée�"�.

Now she has time to take up nine hobbies, eat hamburgers at 4am, and “get back out there” sex-wise. With the support of her tough-loving academic advisor, Merris; her newly divorced friend, Amy; and her group chat (naturally), Maggie barrels through her first year of singledom, intermittently dating, and asking tough questions along the way: Why do we still get married? Did I fail before I even got started? And when do I get to lie down on the floor?

Laugh-out-loud funny and painfully relatable, Really Good, Actually is a surprisingly tender and bittersweet page-turner that lays bare the uncertainties of modern love and friendship and that thing we like to call “happiness”. It's an anti-romantic comedy for anyone who's ever had their heart broken that marks the debut of an unforgettable new voice.