Nothing Will Be Different, Tara McGowanRoss
Nothing Will Be Different, Tara McGowanRoss
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Nothing Will Be Different
A Memoir

Author: Tara McGowan-Ross

Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella

Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/23/2021


Synopsis

A neurotic party girl's coming-of-age memoir about learning to live before getting ready to die.

Tara has it pretty good: a nice job, a writing career, a forgiving boyfriend. She should be happy. Yet Tara can't stay sober. She's terrible at monogamy. Even her psychiatrist grows sick of her and stops returning her calls. She spends most of her time putting out social fires, barely pulling things off, and feeling sick and tired.

Then, in the autumn following her twenty-seventh birthday, an abnormal lump discovered in her left breast serves as the catalyst for a journey of rigorous self-questioning. Waiting on a diagnosis, she begins an intellectual assessment of her life, desperate to justify a short existence full of dumb choices. Armed with her philosophy degree and angry determination, she attacks each issue in her life as the days creep by and winds up writing a searingly honest memoir about learning to live before getting ready to die.

About Tara McGowan-Ross

Tara McGowan-Ross is an urban Mi'kmaw multidisciplinary artist and writer. She is the host of Drawn & Quarterly's Indigenous Literatures Book Club, a critic of experimental and independent Montreal theater, and an editor for Insomniac Press. She is the author of Girth and Scorpion Season. Tara lives in Montreal.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jillian

I didn’t know I needed this book until I finished it. Tara’s voice is honest in a way that doesn’t leave room for the mushy non-sense of alt. literature, yet it still sprinkles in fleeting seconds of both bullshit and truth. It speaks to the struggles of growing up (and growing alongside) your traum......more

Goodreads review by Lea

Maybe one of the most honest tales of depression ever, or at least incredibly relatable for me personally, as I reflect on my last decade and it's ups and downs (real or imagined)......more

Goodreads review by Abby

I picked this up when I was going through a bit of a rough patch and immediately started reading it on the walk home, because it's the kind of book to make you risk walking embarrasingly into a light pole. Tara invites you into her world with humour and honesty and a tenacity that's electrifying. It......more

Goodreads review by Cid

Tara’s Memoir has a complete lack of pretentiousness. She writes a protagonist who is unapologetically whole; whose flaws, brilliance, and endearing neurosis make readers excited to follow her story. She says, “I’ve been cursed, since childhood, with a steely determination to not do a single thing I......more

Goodreads review by Alex

This memoir is phenomenal, one of my favourites of the year. Each chapter title is a song so you get an amazing playlist as well.......more