I've recently read All Fours by Miranda July, which I loved, and Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey, which I liked. They're very different books, but both are about women who are dealing with the end of their marriages and aging in a way that is messy, selfish, and hurtful to those around them. They're flailing for long stretches of the books and kind of luxuriating in their tailspins.
Many reviews of both books deride them as the naval gazing of the privileged, and talk about how the protagonists need to grow up, acknowledge their effects on those around them, and get back to work.
Only here's the thing: I'm going through it and I am trying to get back to work without any narcissistic wallowing of my own. So I want to give voice to those feelings through the fiction I'm consuming.
Does anyone have recommendations for books about women going through something and just having an ugly, immature, alienating time of it?
by SometimesLiterary