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Fuccboi by Sean Thor Conroe: book review

Fuccboi  by Sean Thor Conroe Very rarely do I read books that I'm probably not the intended audience. I fit marketing stereotypes well, and I feel like, especially in the last decade, the lit fic trends are catered towards me, and that's also what I seek out. I read books about women in their twenties figuring out how to be women in their twenties with a few deviations here and there for the big award-winners or long listed books or whatever is capturing the book world imagination. But, usually, I'm reading books where the touch-points and in-jokes are all turned my direction—I was on that side of the internet, I remember the meme, the song resonates for me.  That was very much not the case with Fuccboi . Which wasn't a surprise. I didn't find the book through my usual channels. I discovered it through a friend and was intrigued because this friend doesn't read or like much contemporary fiction, especially internet-dealing fiction, but has held this book and its...

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