WE WERE THE UNIVERSE

Feral Jenny Offill author of Weather Horny Jean Kyoung Frazier author of Pizza Girl Hilarious Chelsea Bieker author of Mad Woman The trip was supposed to be fun When Kit s best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for a quick idyllic weekend away They ll soak in hot springs then drink too much like old times Instead their getaway only reminds Kit of everything she s lost lately her wildness her independence and most heartbreakingly of all her sister Julie who died a few years ago When she returns home Kit tries to settle the routine of caring for her irrepressible young daughter But in the secret recesses of Kit s mind she s fantasizing about the hot playground mum and reminiscing about the band she used to be in with her sister and how they d go out to the desert after shows and drop acid Keyed into everything that might distract her from her surfacing grief Kit begins to spiral and as her already thin boundaries between reality and fantasty blur she starts to wonder is Julie really gone