Whereabouts

This short story (under 200 pages) is about a single woman living in Italy. We follow her thoughts about her daily life and activities, lovers, friends, travels. The prose is beautiful and descriptive, full of metaphors and the female gaze. It reminds me of my own journal musings from when I lived in Manhattan. She captures the essence of loneliness so perfectly. A small person in a big city, seeing the same people everyday, creating a routine for yourself to keep you busy. “I don’t have a notebook with me so I jot this down on the back of a receipt stuck in my wallet.” As a writer with bursts of inspiration, this is so relatable