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Definitely Better Now

by Author Ava Robinson

  • Publisher HarperCollinsPublishers
  • Year published 2024
  • ISBN: ISBN 978-0778310594
  • Number of pages 352 pages
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Definitely Better Now
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Sobriety is turning out to be far from the flawless future Emma had once envisioned for herself, but as she allows herself to open up to Ben and confront difficult past relationships, she’s beginning to realize that taking things one day at a time might just be the perfectly imperfect path she’s meant to be on. Bittersweet and darkly hilarious, Ava Robinson’s debut novel about navigating sobriety and complicated family dynamics is witty, heartbreaking, and profoundly relatable. ebook icon Audio book icon

Ava Robinson
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Ava Robinson is the assistant director of Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute and an alum of the New School’s MFA program. Previously, she wrote and hosted the podcast Trace Material, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, for Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons School of Design. She has had her short fiction published in Soundings East,Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly,Little Patuxent Review, and elsewhere. Definitely Better Now is her first novel. 

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