Book Recommendation: The Opposite of Loneliness

_MuNiYa · May 11, 2015, 11:33am

Landed on a good read, thought I’d share it with you guys. This book is a compliation of short stories and essays by Marina Keegan, an Ivy League trained young promising author who lost her life in a car accident at a very young age. Apparently she touched so many people’s lives that they decided to print her book.

I’ve read about 50 pages and am loving it.
@khattichic will be happy to know its not YA.

Goodreads info:

Marina Keegan’s star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash.

As her family, friends, and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her unforgettable last essay for the Yale Daily News, “The Opposite of Loneliness” went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. She had struck a chord.

Even though she was just twenty-two when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. The Opposite of Loneliness is an assemblage of Marina’s essays and stories that, like The Last Lecture, articulates the universal struggle that all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to make an impact on the world.

khattichic · May 11, 2015, 12:08pm