The Temporary: A Novel
Rachel Cusk · 1995
A short, sharp novel about a young woman drifting through a series of temporary office jobs in London, capturing the strange texture of early work and the effort of finding a self inside it.
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My Salinger Year: A Memoir
Joanna Rakoff · 2001
A memoir of a young woman's first job at a literary agency in New York, full of the small textures of workplace initiation, low pay, ambition and finding your footing in your twenties.
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney · 2017
A sharp, readable portrait of two former lovers and the couple they fall in with, capturing the awkward renegotiation of intimacy as people's lives and incomes diverge in their twenties.
My Misspent Youth: Essays
Meghan Daum · 2001
Essays about debt, ambition and the gap between what a young person expects and what money actually allows, which speaks directly to the economics of starting out.
My Education: A Book of Dreams
William S. Burroughs · 1995
This is a wrong fit: it is a dream memoir, not a book about romantic love as self-knowledge, so it should not be named here.
Expectation
Anna Hope · 2019
Follows three friends through their thirties in London as careers, money and relationships fail to match their student ideals, making it a warm, honest portrait of growing up slowly.
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