Cult Classic is the second novel from the celebrated humorist, whose essay collections are required reading for smart people who also identify as fun.
Our protagonist Lola is funny, and bored, and, it seems, cursed—she keeps running into her exes. Not just a once-every-few-years “Oh!
Hi.” at the grocery store, but a constant stream, like an evil algorithm serving up her memories in human form. Surprise!!! It’s a cult.
Lola is a writer, which makes her a good conduit for Crosley's arch, wise voice. She reflects, “Like ghosts, each of us would sacrifice anything—money, sanity, security, for a chance to go back in time, to make sense of our choices, of the mess that is ourselves.”Greek myths tell us that Thetis, the mother of the great warrior Achilles, was so determined to keep her son from dying in battle in the Trojan War that she disguised him as a woman and hid him on the far island of Skyros, where he fell in love with the island’s princess.
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