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It summons their yearning and guarantees their failure.
), and a mysterious figure who rejects the physical world altogether, living for and on the internet.
And yet it works.
Rejectionis a more mature work.
Even with all the cumming and crying.
A READ MORE WOMEN tote bag is deployed as a punch line.
When people text a crush, then textagainbefore the crush responds, we cringe in pain and recognition.
(Tulathimutte, like a couple of the characters here, is Thai American.)
At least its honest.
Not all the books judgments feel so intentional.
This feels like the right time to mention the Asian-women thing.
In Tulathimuttes writing, small Asian women are the only ones everyone wants.
Shes both racist and never proven wrong: Cece does win, does become an actual bride.
Alisons story is wobbly for other reasons too.
Well-planted in the specifics of internet-addicted white and Asian men, Tulathimutte stumbles in Girl World.
Theres a rant about chocolate and chick lit and yoga.
Shes basic, we get it.
You start to miss the horrible men, rubbing themselves raw.
Luckily, or not your mileage may vary we get back to them quickly.
And to so many other places, too, including a truly bravura description of a sexual fantasy.
A moment to process feels welcome, even if it is aggressively meta.
He accuses himself of literary crimes equivalent to giving a speech and then clapping for yourself.
Turns out blue ballscankill a guy.
They can also make a really good story.
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