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, Alexandra Tanner tells a disturbingly relatable tale of the destructive, wasteful ways we become addicted to content we don’t even like.Chief among the perils and delights of the internet is the ability it has given us to peer into the lives of those others, whether we know them or not. Sometimes that means checking up on an old nemesis; other times it’s noting the sudden absence of a former partner; still others it’s fixating on a celebrity.
Both in the essay and in the novel, there’s a grappling with this idea of “what does it mean to spend time with these people?” At one point, Jules says, “Things aren’t so bad in my life, I think. At least, I’m not one of these people or one of their followers. Then I realize that I am, of course, one of their followers, a devoted one, even, in my own fucked up little way.” She’s following them critically, but they still take up all her time.
Jules justifies to her sister that she’s spending all this time on the mommies because “I’m gonna write an essay.”I have spent all this time on something that I’m not proud of. There’s this question of how you can take something you’re sheepish about and turn it into something “productive.” Would you say that the novel is a gesture to that?
In my own family dynamic, there’s this bedrock of unconditional love, so we can get away with saying or doing anything to each other and we’ll always come back to this place—eventually. But I was really interested in looking at a set of three characters who are completely entwined and who are, at the end of the day, really devoted to each other—but kind of against their own best interests. In every little conversation they have, I wanted everything to be as loaded with baggage as possible.
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