Writers & Lovers by Lily King follows our main character Casey, as she navigates life one year after her mother's sudden death, she is lost, broke, in-debt and very much living with her fair share of demons and past traumas. Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she's been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Casey's fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and lif...
I am a dreamer and a pessimist trapped inside one body. And I think that has always been a problem. All my life I have been quiet. And it has not made it easier for people to quickly warm up to me. But it also means it has made it easier for people to easily say things to me, things that shouldn't be said, things that they think wouldn't hurt or provoke a reaction since I am always so "quiet" anyways. And all my life I have been content with this silence, careless about the assumptions, completely free. Until I wasn't. All I wanted from life is some ease and calm, some understanding and compassion. I wanted what I have always read about and watched in movies, whether in friendships, love, career or everything else. Because that's what I do, I dream of things that are unattainable, that are unrealistic and I wait for them to happen. I waited for so long until I wasn't anymore. I waited until somehow a switch was flicked inside and I convinced myself that ...