{"product_id":"9780143135524","title":"Jillian : A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \"sublimely awkward and hilarious\" (Chicago Tribune), National Book Award \"5 Under 35\"-garnering first novel from the acclaimed author of The New Me--now in a new edition Twenty-four-year-old Megan may have her whole life ahead of her, but it already feels like a dead end, thanks to her dreadful job as a gastroenterologist's receptionist and her heart-clogging resentment of the success and happiness of everyone around her. But no one stokes Megan's bitterness quite like her coworker, Jillian, a grotesquely optimistic, thirty-five-year-old single mother whose chirpy positivity obscures her mounting struggles. Megan and Jillian's lives become increasingly precarious as their faulty coping mechanisms--denial, self-help books, alcohol, religion, prescription painkillers, obsessive criticism, alienated boyfriends, and, in Jillian's case, the misguided purchase of a dog--send them spiraling toward their downfalls. Wickedly authentic and brutally funny, Jillian is a subversive portrait of two women trapped in cycles of self-delusion and self-destruction, each more like the other than they would care to admit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48565733228779,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":31.13,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780143135524-1.jpg?v=1784207517","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9780143135524","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}