Really Good, Actually: A Novel

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Very funnythink Bridget Jones meets Broad City. . .

. Heisey is making a career out of guiding characters through the kinds of crises we can laugh at and sympathize with all at once, while upending enough rom-com tropes to keep things interesting. Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times

One of the most hilarious and barbed accounts of unexpectedly starting over Ive ever read.

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If youve ever felt lost and hoped that it was leading towards wisdom,Really Good, Actuallyis your novel. Stephanie Danler,New York Timesbestselling author ofSweetbitter

Recommended by Los Angeles Times Washington Post GQ Elle Good Morning America People Guardian The Times E! News Online The Globe and Mail Toronto Star The Week New York Post Shondaland and many more!

A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one womans messy search for joy and meaning in the wake of an unexpected breakup, from comedian, essayist, and award-winning screenwriter Monica Heisey

Maggie is fine. Shes doing really good, actually.

Sure, shes broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days, but at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new life as a Surprisingly Young Divorce.

Now she has time to take up nine hobbies, eat hamburgers at 4 am, and get back out there sex-wise. With the support of her tough-loving academic advisor, Merris; her newly divorced friend, Amy; and her group chat (naturally), Maggie barrels through her first year of single life, intermittently dating, occasionally waking up on the floor and asking herself tough questions along the way.

Laugh-out-loud funny and filled with sharp observations,Really Good, Actuallyis a tender and bittersweet comedy that lays bare the uncertainties of modern love, friendship, and our search for that thing we like to call happiness. This is a remarkable debut from an unforgettable new voice in fiction.

A prime example of how a storyteller's voice can pull you right in and keep you clinging to every sentence.

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This is a book I will give to my closest girlfriends and say, You have to read this. Zibby Owens, GoodMorningAmerica.com

Tremendously funny and thoughtful. GQ