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The Life of the Mind: ""Sharp and funny."" (Daily Mail)

By (author) Christine Smallwood

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***A TIME MAGAZINE, LITHUB, WHITE REVIEW BEST BOOK OF 2021*** ""200 pages of serious entertainment."" â€•The Times The Life of the Mind opens with Dorothy sitting on a library toilet, checking her phone and examining the â€œthick, curdled knots of stringâ€ coming out of her body. No one but her boyfriend knows that sheâ€™s had a miscarriage, not even her therapistsâ€“Dorothy has two of them. An adjunct professor of English in New York City with no hope of finding a permanent position, Dorothyâ€™s stuck, unable to envision the future or cut ties with the past. â€œWhat did you call it,â€ she asks herself, â€œwhen a life stopped developing, but it didnâ€™t end?â€ Christine Smallwoodâ€™s debut is a campus novel like no other. Piercingly intelligent and darkly hilarious, it moves from a classroom to an underwater puppet show, from a conference in Las Vegas to a karaoke party. It is a discomforting glimpse into the head of a brilliant woman on the edge, it is a novel about endings: of youth, of professional aspiration, of possibility, of the illusion that our minds can ever free us from the tyranny of our bodies.