Books by Halle Butler and Complete Book Reviews

Jillian
Jillian
Halle Butler. Curbside Splendor, $14.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-940430-29-4
Eternal optimist Jillian, 35, works in a gastroenterologist’s office in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Chicago. New coworker Megan, 24, arrives in a state of permanent resentment: at having to work in such a stupid job, at Jillian and her...
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The New Me
The New Me
Halle Butler. Penguin, $16 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-313360-5
Butler’s incisive latest (following Jillian) opens in winter in Chicago, where 30-year-old Millie is sweating inside her coat as she rides the crowded train to her temp position at the Lisa Hopper interior design showroom, where the uptight senior...
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Banal Nightmare
Banal Nightmare
Halle Butler. Random House, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-73035-5
In Butler’s cutting latest (after The New Me), an aimless young woman leaves Chicago for the Midwestern university town where she grew up. Fleeing her toxic boyfriend, Nick, and a city she’s come to see as an “enervating wasteland of superficial...
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