The two hit it off immediately and begin an intense relationship in which Max tells Nina that he loves and sees a future with her. She notes, “Being a heterosexual woman who loved men meant being a translator for their emotions, a palliative nurse for their pride and a hostage negotiator for their egos.”īut then she downloads a Tinder-esque dating app and meets ruggedly handsome Max. Still, as a single and successful woman, you get the impression that Nina isn’t one to define herself by her relationships. (While hanging out with her close friend Katherine, Nina laments that she can “count at least three elephants now omnipresent in the room of our friendship from my side, and I’m sure Katherine could count at least three more of her own.”) All but one of her closest friends-the lovable Lola-are either married with children, married and planning to have children soon or in committed relationships. Nina Dean is a 32-year-old food writer living in north London. In her new book Ghosts, British podcaster and author Dolly Alderton has written a millennial-driven story that’s actually deeply relatable, instead of insulting. Millennials, common opinion goes, are adult-children who are obsessed with unearned praise, skinny jeans and avocado toast. All too often, anecdotes about millennials are, in a word, unflattering.
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