Bibliograph

Type

Label

Fourth comings, a novel, Megan McCafferty

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Fourth comings

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

277063554

Responsibility statement

Megan McCafferty

Sub title

a novel

Summary

At first it seems that she's living the elusive New York City dream. She'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 clichés. She and Hope share bunk beds in the "Cupcake"--The girlie pastel bedroom normally occupied by twelve-year-old twins. Their Brooklyn neighborhood is better suited to "breeders", and she and Hope split the rent with their promiscuous high school pal, Manda, and her "genderqueer boifriend". Freelancing for an obscure journal can't put a dent in Jessica's student loans, so she's eking out a living by babysitting her young niece and lamenting that she, unlike most of her friends, can't postpone adulthood by going back to school. Yet it's the ever-changing relationship with Marcus that leaves her most unsettled. At the ripe age of twenty-three, he'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?

Target audience

juvenile

Classification