Description:There, I came across a cluster of NYU graduates standing in cap and gown. They were laughing and posing for photos. Was it June again already? Their voices echoed through the subway tunnel. ?Congratulations!OCO ?Congratulations!OCO their parents said. And I wanted to yell, ?DonOCOt do it! Go back! You donOCOt know what itOCOs like!OCO"
Whether passed out drunk at The New Yorker where sheOCOs interning; assigning Cliffs Notes when hired to teach humanities at a local college; getting banned from a fleet of Greek Island ferries while on vacation, or trying to piece together the events of yet another puzzling blackout I prefer to call them pink-outs, because IOCOm a girlOCO?Iris is never short on misadventures. From quarter-life crisis to the shock of turning thirty, Iris Has Free Time charts a madcap, melancholic course through that curious age?oneOCOs twenties?when childhood is over, supposedly.
Iris Smyles has created in "Iris Smyles" an irresistible anti-heroine whose innocent iconoclasm startles as it charms.