There’s Nothing Wrong with Her
There’s Nothing Wrong with Her by Kate Weinberg, published by Penguin on August 6, 2024, is a 224-page novel that explores the life of Vita Woods, a woman grappling with an elusive illness that keeps her confined to her bed. Despite her successful podcast and a promising relationship with her boyfriend, Max, Vita finds herself slipping into a state she calls “The Pit,” where she encounters a mix of imagined and real figures, including her sister Gracie and a ghostly Renaissance poet named Luigi. This narrative blends elements of dark humor and satire, offering a unique perspective on friendship and the complexities of mental health.
In this edition, readers will delve into Vita’s journey as she navigates her illness and the blurred lines between reality and imagination. The story captures her struggles and the unexpected connections she forms, particularly with her upstairs neighbors. Themes of women’s fiction and the intricacies of sisterhood are woven throughout, providing a rich backdrop for Vita’s experiences. This book presents a raw and tenderly comic examination of what it means to feel unwell in a world that insists there is nothing wrong.
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“Beautiful.” —Sarah Jessica Parker
“The best thing you’ll read this year.” —Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun Age
A raw, tenderly comic, and perfectly off-kilter novel about a woman who occasionally finds herself in “The Pit”—a delirious state of semiconsciousness—and the improbable, sometimes imagined people who meet her there.
Vita Woods is on the brink. She produces a popular podcast and lives with her successful doctor boyfriend, Max, with whom the sex is great and the future promising. Her brilliant if unreliable sister, Gracie, is her best friend and sparring partner. And her steadfast goldfish, Whitney Houston, brightens even her dimmest days. But as much as things are going right, the days are dark. Vita is not leaving the house. In fact, she can barely make it out of bed.
Instead, she spends long, blurred hours falling in and out of The Pit, dead to the world and to herself. For months, Vita has been sick with an illness that no doctor, not even Max, can diagnose. And recently, Luigi, a Renaissance poet nursing a 500-year-old heartbreak, has started showing up at her bedside, bringing snacks and unsolicited romantic advice. He says he’s come to release her. The issue is: he may be a ghost, an apparition of her sickly mind.
Then, when an unexpected mix-up pushes her into the path of her upstairs neighbors, Vita finds friendship—and perhaps more—in the apartment above. But something about her “condition” keeps nagging at her. What if the problem is Vita herself? Because as far as anyone can prove . . . there’s nothing wrong with her.
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