Trouble Girl

<p><em>Trouble Girl </em>follows Ava Mueller through high school and university. She fights with her mom searches desperately for friendship and belonging then a teacher tells her she can write. </p><p></p><p>Writers artists - they're not real people she thinks. </p><p></p><p>They live outside society. They don't follow rules - oh Mom will never allow that. </p><p></p><p>Yet Ava doesn't fit in anywhere. </p><p></p><p>At university she works hard towards self-sufficiency shooting bullets into her own feet every step of the way. The resulting chronicle is both funny and heartbreaking. </p><p></p><p>When we meet Ava at the beginning of the <strong>Do the Wrong Thing </strong>serial she stutters through a description of her suicide attempt. I don't know why I did it she says. It was mundane like brushing my teeth. Once she starts talking she can't stop placing one memory after the other in a parade of isolated incidents that don't seem to connect. </p><p></p><p>If you like Knausgaard Ferrante and Rachel Cusk you'll love this Gen X Proust. </p>