Really Good, Actually

Maggie insists she is doing really well. She is broke, her graduate thesis on an obscure topic is stalled, and her marriage ended after just 608 days. At twenty-nine she has decided to treat her new status as a young divorcée as a fresh start rather than a failure.

Freedom means time for nine new hobbies, hamburgers at 4 am, and a return to the dating world. Along the way she leans on her blunt but caring academic advisor, Merris, her recently divorced friend Amy, and her ever-active group chat.

The novel follows Maggie through her first year on her own. She dates on and off, sometimes wakes up on the floor, and slowly starts asking herself harder questions about what she wants.