Dating Tips for the Unemployed
Dating Tips for the Unemployed by Iris Smyles, published by Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2016, is an illustrated work that presents a unique urban odyssey. The narrative follows the protagonist, Iris, as she navigates her experiences and reflections on various aspects of life, including love, work, and personal growth. Through twenty-four episodes, the book offers a blend of humor and introspection, capturing the complexities of finding one’s place in the world.
Readers will encounter a rich tapestry of themes, from the whimsical to the profound, as Iris contemplates topics such as loneliness, memory, and even Greek mythology. The book’s picaresque style invites exploration of the awkward transition between youth and adulthood, filled with absurdity and lyrical moments. With 288 pages, this edition provides a thoughtful and entertaining look at contemporary life, making it a notable addition to discussions on relationships and personal identity.
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“Iris Smyles’s Dating Tips for the Unemployed is an urban odyssey, a wistful, wise, and wry look back at a young woman trying to find her home in the world. “Iris,” the narrator and heroine, guides the reader through twenty-four episodes from her life, pausing now and then for meditations on love, sex, work, loneliness, insomnia, arctic exploration, cannibalism, the Higgs boson, Greek mythology, memory, costumes parties, time travel, Rocky I, II, V, IV, VI, and III respectively, literary immortality, real estate trends, and growing up and growing old. Evoking the screwball heroines of a bygone era as she often finds herself a little lost in her own,”Iris” ventures blithely into the future, and Smyles collects the flotsam of her past. An encyclopedic, absurd, lyrical, and louche picaresque about that awkward age–between birth and death–when you feel like you don’t know at all what you’re doing”–
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