The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan 256 pages
Bittersweet and lyrical in its delivery, every story and essay like a truth serum to the soul. So much more meaningful when you realize the talent and ease this author paints word pictures with, so much so that you want to read more, get more glimpses into her psyche because she offers it up so completely and so clearly. No pretense just pure honesty. The lack of inhibitions, the reveal of who she is naked to the world like a minute old newborn. Life had taken her places of sorrow and grief but things were on a trajectory though the roof with her new job at the New Yorker, her graduation 5 days earlier Magna Cum Laude from Yale University, "Independents," one of her musical plays about to be performed at the Fringe Festival! Life was amazing and everything happening so fast and all at once until it wasn't. 5 days after graduation, Marina Keegan was killed in an auto accident. The circumstances are tragic but the words are those of a gifted writer. Treat yourself to this read you will be glad you did. Meet the essence that is/was Marina. I recommend it to Middler Schoolers on up. A delightful experience. Like Schrodinger's cat she is both living and dead all at the same time straddling two worlds her spirit in each.
posted by Shirley J.
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