Book Review - Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
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You're only going to fit into one of two camps here. You're either going to love this or loathe this. I'm firmly in the former camp. Really Good, Actually is a hilarious adventure for the millennial and Gen Z generation. The jokes here are frequent. Dabbling from situational humor to verbal cues, author Monica Heisey establishes an unreliable main character on the brink of disaster that truly has no parallel. The premise revolves around Maggie. A somewhat zaftig, 29 year old red haired young woman whose marriage fell apart after 608 days. Over the course of 377 pages, Maggie tries to figure out what dissolved the marriage, but it's clear (early on) that it was no singular thing. What transpires is recovery. Recovery from the marriage. From the expectations of family. And the recovery from friends. To me, it never felt burdensome. It feels witty and clever. And just when the book seems to go in one direction, it circumvents expectations with new failings both from new