You're leaving when? : adventures in downward mobility
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Publication Information
Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021.
Physical Description
213 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"With sharp wit, Annabelle Gurwitch gives irreverent and empathetic voice to a generation hurtling into their next chapter with no safety net and proving that our no-frills new normal doesn't mean a deficit of humor. In these essays, Gurwitch embraces homesharing, welcoming a housing-insecure young couple and a bunny rabbit into her home. The mother of a college student in recovery who sheds the gender binary, she relearns to parent, one pronoun at a time. She wades into the dating pool with a reupholstered vagina and flunks the magic of tidying up. You're Leaving When? is for anybody who thought they had a semblance of security but wound up with a fragile economy and a blankie. 'What do we do when we've already reinvented in midlife?' Gurwitch offers stories of resilience, adaptability, low-rent redemption, and the kindness of strangers. Even in a Zoom"--
Contents
- Introduction: I thought there'd be coasting
- Homeward bound
- Stuffed
- Silver nesting
- Red flags
- The ____ that changes everything
- If you lived with me you'd be home by now
- Spirited away
- They got the alias that we've been living under
- Lubepocalypse now!
- Dear girlfriends
- You're doing all the right things, everything is going to work out
- Free to be... they and them
- You're leaving when?
- In a muted zoom no one can hear you scream.