In the 1990s, Amber Forbus kept up with several of her pals from That's What She Said while tethered to a landline phone. In the year 2025, they crack jokes and drop emojis in their group text. For ...
How does one respond to grief? In Jade Chang’s sophomore novel, “What a Time to Be Alive,” the answer is, at least, creative: become an influencer and start paying off your student loans.
Is it cheesy to open this review with “What a time to be alive, indeed”? Almost certainly, but Jade Chang embraces clumsy cheesiness in her new novel about an L.A. spirituality influencer named Lola ...