{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Fourth Comings","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/fourth-comings","description":"At first it seems that she\u0026#39;s living the elusive New York City dream. She\u0026#39;s subletting an apartment with her best friend, Hope, working for a magazine that actually utilizes her psychology degree, and still deeply in love with Marcus Flutie, the charismatic addict-turned-Buddhist who first captivated her at sixteen. Of course, reality is more complicated than dreamy cliches. She and Hope share bunk beds in the \u0026quot;Cupcake\u0026quot;--the girlie pastel bedroom normally occupied by twelve-year-old twins. Their Brooklyn neighborhood is better suited to \u0026quot;breeders,\u0026quot; and she and Hope split the rent with their promiscuous high school pal, Manda, and her \u0026quot;genderqueer boifriend.\u0026quot; Freelancing for an obscure journal can\u0026#39;t put a dent in Jessica\u0026#39;s student loans, so she\u0026#39;s eking out a living by babysitting her young niece and lamenting that she, unlike most of her friends, can\u0026#39;t postpone adulthood by going back to school. Yet it\u0026#39;s the ever-changing relationship with Marcus that leaves her most unsettled. At the ripe age of twenty-three, he\u0026#39;s just starting his freshman year at Princeton University. Is she ready to give up her imperfect yet invigorating post-college life just because her on-again/off-again soul mate asks her to... marry him? Jessica has one week to respond to Marcus\u0026#39;s perplexing marriage proposal. During this time, she gains surprising wisdom from unexpected sources, including a popular talk show shrink, a drag queen named Royalle G. Biv, and yes, even her parents. But the most shocking confession concerns two people she thought had nothing to hide: Hope and Marcus.Will this knowledge inspire Jessica to give up a world of late-night literary soirees, art openings, and downtown drunken karaoke to move back to New Jersey and be with the one man who\u0026#39;s gripped her heart for years? Jessica ponders this and other life choices with her signature snark and hyper-intense insight, making it the most tumultuous and memorable week of her twenty-something life.From the Hardcover edition.","author_name":"Megan McCafferty","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/megan-mccafferty","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/external_data/34590254/f5b7315dc776aa6c42ab5f34f0581f1717ba51c7.jpeg","thumbnail_width":301,"thumbnail_height":500}