The Opposite of Loneliness, Marina Keegan
The Opposite of Loneliness, Marina Keegan
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The Opposite of Loneliness
Essays and Stories

Author: Marina Keegan

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 5 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/08/2014

Synopsis

Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash.

As her family, friends, and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her unforgettable last essay for the Yale Daily News, "The Opposite of Loneliness," went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. She had struck a chord.

Even though she was just twenty-two when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. The Opposite of Loneliness is an assem­blage of Marina's essays and stories that, like The Last Lecture, articulates the universal struggle that all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to make an impact on the world.

About Marina Keegan

Marina Keegan graduated from Yale University in 2012 magna cum laude. While a student, she wrote for the Yale Daily News, organized Occupy Morgan Stanley, and co-wrote the musical Independents, which was produced at the New York Fringe Festival. Days after her graduation, Marina was killed in a car crash on Cape Cod.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lindy Loo

This book infuriated me. I'm sure it has infuriated others as well, but given the circumstances (and tragic death) of its writer, I suspect most folks feel uncomfortable panning it. So I'll take one for the team and be that asshole. When I jumped into this book, having read its hype, I was expecting......more

Goodreads review by Ariel

I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM THIS BOOK! Let's do a good old fashioned pros vs cons: PROS: - A new found enjoyment in non-fiction! Essays are fun! - When Marina wrote about topics she was really confident in and had first-hand experience with her essays and stories felt so true to life and honest. - As a writer......more

Goodreads review by Whitney

One of the best books i've ever read. Some of the most beautiful writing i've experienced. Some of these quotes gave me chills so bad I had to stop reading. A few of these stories lost my interest, but the ones that blew my mind made up for it. A book that deserves every award and every 5 stars in t......more

Goodreads review by Hank

I was drawn to this book because of the tragic backstory and also because (this is a little embarrassing) I'm trying to understand the so-called millennial generation a little better than I think I do; there are noticeable differences, many of them rooted in stereotype. Anne Fadiman, who wrote one of......more

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