TY - BOOK AU - Alderton,Dolly TI - Good material: a novel T2 - Read with Jenna SN - 9780593801307 PY - 2024/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Fiction KW - Friendship KW - Comedians KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Rejection (Psychology) KW - Separation (Psychology) KW - Romance fiction KW - lcgft KW - Novels N1 - "This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso N2 - "Jen has dumped Andy, and he's handling the breakup in exactly the way all his friends and family might have expected: very, very badly. Crashing at his mother's house and obsessively photographing his hairline, Andy embraces the rites and rituals of every breakup-the ill-advised decision to move onto a houseboat, the forced merriment of a lads' night out, the accidental late-night text to the ex-all resulting in a never-ending shame spiral. Even as Andy tests the waters of a new relationship, he finds himself drawn back to Jen, revisiting old texts and emails, trying to figure out what truly went wrong"-- ER -