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What if this were enough? : essays / by Heather Havrilesky.

by Havrilesky, Heather.

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Doubleday, [2018]

Havrilesky, Heather.

Conduct of life.

Women -- Biography.

xvi, 220 pages ; 22 cm.

The smile factory -- The happiest place on earth -- To infinity and beyond -- Playing house -- Delusion at the gastropub -- Adults only -- Stuffed-- Running on empty-- Lost treasure -- Land of heroic villains -- The popularity contest -- Tag and release -- Haunted -- Bravado-- Survival fantasies -- True romance -- A scourge of gurus -- My mother's house-- Miracle of the mundane.

"Heather Havrilesky attempts to disrupt our cultural delusions and false dichotomies, to unearth moralistic interpretations of mundane human behaviors and interrogate so-called mistakes that we've slowly internalized, and to question the glorification ofsuffering, dishonesty, romantic fantasy, conquest, predation, and perfectionism"--Provided by publisher.

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