
Vacuum in the Dark
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Jayme Mattler
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By:
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Jen Beagin
From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a hilarious, edgy, brilliant, and one-of-a-kind new novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life.
Mona is 26 and cleans houses for a living in Taos, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfriend - a junkie named Mr. Disgusting, long story - and her efforts to restart her life since haven’t exactly gone as planned. For one thing, she’s got another bad boyfriend. This one she calls Dark, and he happens to be married to one of Mona’s clients. He also might be a little unstable.
Dark and his wife aren’t the only complicated clients on Mona’s roster, either. There’s also the Hungarian artist couple who - with her addiction to painkillers and his lingering stares - reminds Mona of troubling aspects of her childhood and some of the underlying reasons her life had to be restarted in the first place. As she tries to get over the heartache of her affair and the older pains of her youth, Mona winds up on an eccentric, moving journey of self-discovery that takes her back to her beginnings where she attempts to unlock the key to having a sense of home in the future.
The only problems are Dark and her past. Neither is so easy to get rid of.
A constantly surprising, laugh-out-loud funny novel about an utterly unique woman dealing with some of the most universal issues in America today, Vacuum in the Dark is an unforgettable, astonishing audiobook from one of the freshest voices in fiction today.
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Great character development
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Jen Beagin is a Genius
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Weirdest characters ever! I adore them all
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Love the weird!!
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Loved it.
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The first half was a “50 Shades of Gray” sexual awakening, and the second half was a rambling redemption/healing journey for Mona and neither interested me. It felt like a compilation of the edited fluff and over-explained backstory from the first novel, which ruined how much I liked the first and the character. This is one where I should have listened to the negative reviews.
Unnecessary sequel
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Disgusting!
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My least favorite Jen Beagin book
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Drags on
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Such a waste of time!
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