
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
'A generation-defining collection published posthumously…Her voice is relevant, sharp, fresh, unfiltered and poetic, with a dry wit. You can dive in and out of her questioning and her musings and meanderings. So much promise' Jenna Coleman, star of Doctor Who and Victoria Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. As her family, friends and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her unforgettable last essay for the Yale Daily News, 'The Opposite of Loneliness', went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. She had struck a chord. Even though she was just 22 when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty and possibility of her generation. The Opposite of Loneliness is an assemblage of Marina's essays and stories that articulates the universal struggle we all face as we work out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to make an impact on the world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Epigraph page
- Contents
- Introduction by Anne Fadiman
- Acknowledgments
- The Opposite of Loneliness
- FICTION
- Cold Pastoral
- Winter Break
- Reading Aloud
- The Ingenue
- The Emerald City
- Baggage Claim
- Hail, Full of Grace
- Sclerotherapy
- Challenger Deep
- NONFICTION
- Stability in Motion
- Why We Care about Whales
- Against the Grain
- Putting the “Fun” Back in Eschatology
- I Kill for Money
- Even Artichokes Have Doubts
- The Art of Observation
- Song for the Special
- About the Author
- A Remembrance of Marina Keegan and Questions for Further Discussion