Vacuum in the Dark - Jen Beagin
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Jayme Mattler
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Contemporary, Adults
From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend Im Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a hilarious, edgy, brilliant, and one-of-a-kind new novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life., Mona is 26 and cleans houses for a living in Taos, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfriend - a junkie named Mr. Disgusting, long story - and her efforts to restart her life since havent exactly gone as planned. For one thing, shes got another bad boyfriend. This one she calls Dark, and he happens to be married to one of Monas clients. He also might be a little unstable., Dark and his wife arent the only complicated clients on Monas roster, either. Theres also the Hungarian artist couple who - with her addiction to painkillers and his lingering stares - reminds Mona of troubling aspects of her childhood and some of the underlying reasons her life had to be restarted in the first place. As she tries to get over the heartac
