by Megan Burbank
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For reasons I probably shouldn’t think about too deeply, my favorite subcategory in the wide field of coming-of-age stories is “high-strung lady who’s great at her job gets her structured life disrupted by an unlikely friend, but still doesn’t change that much in any perceptible sense, because life is complicated and people are set in their ways.” This is the plot of nearly every Virginia Woolf novel, and a whole host of movies where nothing appears to happen for two hours, but really, everything happens—it’s just that it happens in a way that can’t be easily summarized to impress your Tinder date who doesn’t read much.