THE
OPPOSITE
OF
LONELINESS
Essays and Stories
by Marina Keegan
reviews and awards
Goodreads Choice Awards Best Nonfiction Winner
2014
An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world’s attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation.
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A triumph.
Keegan was right to prod us all to reflect on what we seek from life.
The New York Times
A clear-eyed observer of human nature, Keegan could take a clever idea...and make it something beautiful
People Magazine
This is a must-read for those who believe in the need for living each moment of their lives fully as if it is their last, for it may just be so.
Best of 2014: Books with the International New York Times
The Hartford Courant
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A new voice of her generation.
What a gift Keegan has left behind. Not only in her written words... but also in her legacy of social activism and fierce belief in leading a life of purpose, not privilege
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The Boston Globe
Joseph P. Kahn
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O Magazine
The Oprah Magazine
"Her words soar... The Opposite of Loneliness... sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth.
The Opposite of Loneliness. . . . . is insightful, self-aware, and full of all the hope and promise of youth. It will make you wish — for many reasons — that you could read more.
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It’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together. Who are on your team.
When the check is paid and you stay at the table.
When it’s four a.m. and no one goes to bed.
That night with the guitar.
That night we can’t remember. That time we did, we went, we saw, we laughed, we felt.
