For You For You I Am Trilling These Songs

In this collection about life as a twentysomething in the twentyfirst century Kathleen Rooney writes with the finesse of someone well beyond her years but with fresh insights that reveal a girl still making discoveries at every turn. Varied and original the tales in For You For You I Am Trilling These Songs recount the perils of falling in love with the unlikeliest of people of visiting the New York apartments of a vanished poet and of touring an animal retirement home with her parents. Of getting a Brazilian wax and of chauffeuring a U.S. senator around town. Of saying goodbye to a cousin who''s joining a convent and of trying to convince herself that she''s not wasting her life. This is a book about love and longing poetry and plagiarism death and democracy mountain floods and Midwestern cicadas. Here is a young woman struggling to find her place as an adult and a citizen in an America that rarely manages to live up to Whitman''s dream of it. With this book Rooney singsyes in fact she trillsloud and clear.