PositiveThe GuardianMarina Keegan’s writing, at its best, vibrates. It overflows with what it is to be young, intelligent, ambitious, uncertain… and alive ...nine stories and nine essays, including the title piece written for the Yale Daily News, a musing on the hugeness of the future... The stories carry a strange and sizeable weight as a result, with many feeling as if they foreshadow what was to come ... She has a keen eye and an emotional intelligence; she pins down the self-questioning and introspection of being in your early 20s... In some of the stories you can feel Keenan experimenting and testing herself, pushing beyond the familiar, trying new things, and while some of these experiments are more successful than others, in the best of them there is an energy at play, a kind of bubbling brightness.
