Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
By Gail Honeyman
I'm going to be honest here; I literally bought this book on one of those "I'm running into the store as fast as I can to buy a container of milk, a loaf of bread, and a stick of butter (fill in your own item) while the rest of my family sits in our cookie monster blue colored van playing Pokemon go and hoping the baby doesn't start screaming because the van stopped moving” shopping trips. It had been a long day of the kids trying to kill each other and randomly the book aisle was right beside the item I was looking for, and this week's book was at the end of the shelf. I had seen the cover a few times before, and the book had Reese Whiterspoon's book group sticker on it, and most importantly, it was on super sale, so I bought it.
The novel is pitched as a hilarious story, but I found it really sad at parts. The novel is the story of a woman who has been on her own for a while. She works in an office and keeps to herself, and doesn't think that much of the people around her. She develops a crush on a musician and then tries to get with the times. The book kind of is a coming of age story, but with a woman in her early thirties, or twenties I can't remember her age. A lot of the plot points are a little predictable, but there are some twists.
I enjoyed this book and would recommend reading it.
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