Reading, Writing, and Me

I Want You to Be Happy  by Jem Calder Chuck is 35 and works as a copywriter in London, where he lives in a swanky apartment. The problem is that this apartment was mostly paid for by his ex-fiance who is obviously no longer contributing to the rent, his few drinks to take the edge off are coasting into alcoholism, and he's being silently demoted in his hybrid job, the big projects going to the new graduates more and more often. But all of that comes later. When he meets Joey, his life is still relatively contained.  Joey is 23, a barista and a poet trying her best to make it work in the city. She has a close friend group and a full life, even as she feels external pressure to figure out the course of her big picture existence. Everyone's always asking when she'll get a "real job." She meets Chuck at a bar, and the two fall into a relationship—though Chuck flinches away from any definition as correctly concrete as that. They text at socially appropriate intervals, ...