Leigh Stein -The Fallback Plan

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When you’re young you have a plan -- a scheme, a hope, a notion, a dream -- for what adulthood will be. Reality, however, loves to disappoint. Sooner or later everyone has to ask: “Okay, so what’s my fallback plan?”


THE FALLBACK PLAN by former New Yorker staffer Leigh Stein is a dazzlingly funny and heartbreaking debut novel about that bittersweet moment in-between youth and adulthood when childhood fantasies morph into something strange and new. Fresh out of college, with no job materializing from her drama degree, Esther Kohler moves home to live with her parents in the suburbs. When her dad starts charging her rent, she’s forced to take a job babysitting for a young couple whose second child has recently died. Esther soon finds herself playing many roles within the troubled family—confidante, friend, mistress, mother, therapist—and facing some untidy truths about adult life.

Leigh Stein’s prose is a pure delight. Like a Lorrie Moore for the Facebook generation, or Miranda July’s wiseass kid sister, Stein shifts effortlessly between pop-culture comedy, dead-on dialogue, and wry psychological insight. Beneath the playful riffs on The Sound of Music, suburban Judaism, Guitar Hero, and The Chronicles of Narnia is a writer with a profound understanding of what makes people tick.

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