Fourth Comings (Jessica Darling #4)
Fourth Comings (Jessica Darling #4)
Author: Megan McCafferty
Desc: At first it seems that she’s living the elusive New York City dream. She’s subletting an apartment with her best friend Hope working for a magazine that actually utilizes her psychology degree and still deeply in love with Marcus Flutie the charismatic addict-turned-Buddhist who first captivated her at sixteen. Of course reality is more complicated than dreamy clichés. She and Hope share bunk beds in the “Cupcake”—the girlie pastel bedroom normally occupied by twelve-year-old twins. Their Brooklyn neighborhood is better suited to “breeders ” and she and Hope split the rent with their promiscuous high school pal Manda and her “genderqueer boifriend.” Freelancing for an obscure journal can’t put a dent in Jessica’s student loans so she’s eking out a living by babysitting her young niece and lamenting that she unlike most of her friends can’t postpone adulthood by going back to school. Yet it’s the ever-changing relationship with Marcus that leaves her most unsettled. At the ripe age of twenty-three he’s just starting his freshman year at Princeton University. Is she ready to give up her imperfect yet invigorating post-college life just because her on-again/off-again soul mate asks her to... marry him? Jessica has one week to respond to Marcus’s perplexing marriage proposal. During this time she gains surprising wisdom from unexpected sources including a popular talk show shrink a drag queen named Royalle G. Biv and yes even her parents. But the most shocking confession concerns two people she thought had nothing to hide: Hope and Marcus. Will this knowledge inspire Jessica to give up a world of late-night literary soirees art openings and downtown drunken karaoke to move back to New Jersey and be with the one man who’s gripped her heart for years? Jessica ponders this and other life choices with her signature snark and hyper-intense insight making it the most tumultuous and memorable week of her twenty-something life. From the Hardcover edition.