If You're Not Yet Like Me

by Edan Lepucki

Overview

Joellyn—as judgmental as she is insecure—tells her unborn daughter the story of her courtship with an unemployed, terribly-dressed man named Zachary. The novella is a romantic comedy—if romantic comedies were dark and screwed up and no one got exactly what they wanted.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014790574
Publisher:	Nouvella
Publication date:	07/11/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	399,874
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Edan Lepucki is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction has been published in McSweeney’s, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Narrative Magazine, and FiveChapters, among other publications, and she is the winner of the 2009 James D. Phelan Award. She is a staff writer for The Millions and lives in Los Angeles, California, where she was born and raised.

Editorial Reviews

Joellyn, the caustic, painfully honest narrator of If You’re Not Yet Like Me, is one of the most realistic characters I’ve ever encountered…The significant impact of the short works in this book is impressive, and I look forward to whatever she writes next.

Kylee Stoor

Lepucki is a master at characterization and humor.

Tessa Mellas

A sharp, accomplished work.

Emily St. John Mandel

Lepucki does not attempt, in this novella that reads quicker than many short stories, to stretch Joellyn beyond her limits, to sacrifice the character for the sake of a lesson, a novel, or a heartwarming conclusion. Instead, Lepucki sets herself to the more difficult task of creating charm from Joellyn’s abrasiveness.

Eric Jett