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This Should Be Written in the Present Tense

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Capturing what it feels like to be twenty-something and already disappearing, not with a bang, but with a slow exhale, This Should Be Written in the Present Tense reveals the particular paralysis of a young woman who can see her life clearly and still cannot move

Dorte is twenty-something, living in a suburb she didn't choose, with a man she may not love, doing work that means nothing to her. On the surface, everything is fine. Beneath it, something is slipping away, slowly, quietly, like a ...