Pretend Im Dead Jen Beagin by Jen Beagin 9781501183942, 150118394X, B07ZWL1RQ5 instant download after payment.

Jen Beagin’s funny, moving, fearless debut novel introduces an unforgettable character, Mona—almost twenty-four, emotionally adrift, and cleaning houses to get by. Handing out clean needles to drug addicts, she falls for a recipient she calls Mr Disgusting, who proceeds to break her heart in unimaginable ways. Seeking a kind of healing, she decamps to Taos, New Mexico, for a fresh start, where she finds a community of seekers and cast-offs, all of whom have one or two things to teach her — the pyjama-wearing, blissed-out New Agers, the slightly creepy client with peculiar tastes in controlled substances, the psychic who might really be psychic. But always lurking just beneath the surface are her memories of growing up in a chaotic, destructive family from which she’s trying to disentangle herself, and the larger legacy of the past she left behind. 

The story of Mona’s quest for self-acceptance in this working-class American world is at once hilarious and wonderfully strange, true to life and boldly human, and introduces a stunning, one-of-a-kind new voice in American fiction. 

Jen Beagin holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine, and was a recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award in fiction for her first novel, Pretend I’m Dead, which was also shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and named a best book of the year by O, The Oprah Magazine; Refinery29; and Kirkus Reviews. A former cleaning lady, she lives in Hudson, New York.