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Modern Life

Modern life is not exactly hard, but it is strangely tiring. There is a low hum of friction to it, too much to keep up with, too many small jobs that used to be someone else’s, a sense of never quite arriving. These books name the everyday frustrations most of us feel but rarely say out loud, and in naming them make them feel less like personal failures and more like the shape of the times.

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