Berlin: The dazzling, darkly funny debut that surprises at every turn | 
so-soAn overly dramatic, catastrophisizing young woman goes to Berlin ostensibly to learn German (though not really) and ultimately doesn‘t have the experience she‘s looking for. I saw what this book was looking to do before it was revealed, but by the time it was, I was so tired of indulging the annoying main character that I couldn‘t feel any empathy for her.
pickThis book will stay with me. At times hilarious about real life in Berlin. But also a real look at mental illness - where the narrator‘s “drug” is an eating disorder and hyper-exercising. This should come with trigger warnings. In the end, I think it‘s a necessary and true depiction of struggles facing young people. Honest and terribly sad.
