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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life
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'‘From the discomfort of my own home I buy dresses, look up recipes, do online surveys.’ In Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, an unnamed young woman in her late twenties navigates unemployment, boredom, chronic illness and online dating. Her activities are banal – applying for jobs, looking up horoscopes, managing depression, going on Tinder dates. ‘I want to tell someone I love them but there is no one to tell,’ she says. ‘Except my sister maybe. I want to pick blackberries on a farm and then die.’ She observes the ambiguities of social interactions, the absurd intimacies of sex and the indignity of everyday events, with a skepticism about the possibility of genuine emotion, or enlightenment. Like life, things are just unfolding, and sometimes, like life, they don’t actually get better. Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle’s novella-in-fragments blends artifice with sincerity, is darkly funny, and alive to the incongruous performance that constitutes getting by.'

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    • Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Giramondo Publishing , 2021 .
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      Extent: 68p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published August 2021.
      ISBN: 9781925818772

Works about this Work

Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle Felicity Plunkett , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 28 August - 3 September 2021;

— Review of Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle , 2021 single work novella

'What kind of fruit would you be, and why? The unnamed narrator of Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life struggles to answer this question at a group job interview as she stands in a circle with other interviewees. It’s one of many moments that highlight the ways the surreal and absurd stitch life’s fabric.' (Introduction)

Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle Felicity Plunkett , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 28 August - 3 September 2021;

— Review of Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle , 2021 single work novella

'What kind of fruit would you be, and why? The unnamed narrator of Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life struggles to answer this question at a group job interview as she stands in a circle with other interviewees. It’s one of many moments that highlight the ways the surreal and absurd stitch life’s fabric.' (Introduction)

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