BOOKS - NORMA
US $7.68
161995
161995
NORMA
Author: Sarah Mintz
Year: April 16, 2024
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.7 MB
Language: English
Year: April 16, 2024
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.7 MB
Language: English
Widowhood and weirdos, online and off, NORMA is so dark it smarts. It's a terrible freedom to linger unaccounted for. Norma is waking up and cracking up. Decades of marriage, housekeeping, and family buried with her husband Hank. Now, she's free, gorging on an online riot of canceled soap operas, message boards, and grocery store focus groups. Transcribing chatter for fifty cents a minute. It's all of humanity - grim, funny, and desperate - wafting into her world, a world reeking with the funk of old fast food wrappers, cold stale recycled air, and desiccated car upholstery. And one where appropriate boundaries are suddenly slipping too, when a voice from one of her transcripts goes from virtual to IRL and just down the block. NORMA is a tart, unhinged flail into widowhood, the parasocial, and some of the more careworn corners of the internet.