Iris Has Free Time

Modeled on Dante's Divine Comedy and riffing on Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Iris Has Free Time is a subtle, complicated, funny, bold, lyrical and literary, sad and wise book about youth, time, and what it means to grow up. An instant classic and essential reading for anyone who has ever been young.

"There, I came across a cluster of NYU graduates standing in cap and gown. They were laughing and posing for photos. Was it June again already? Their voices echoed through the subway tunnel. 'Congratulations ' 'Congratulations ' their parents said. And I wanted to yell, 'Don't do it Go back You don't know what it's like '"

Whether passed out drunk at The New Yorker where she's interning; assigning Cliffs Notes when hired to teach humanities at a local college; getting banned from a fleet of Greek Island ferries while on vacation, or trying to piece together the events of yet another puzzling blackout--"I prefer to call them pink-outs, because I'm a girl"--Iris is never short on misadventures. From quarter-life crisis to the shock of turning thirty, Iris Has Free Time charts a madcap, melancholic course through that curious age--one's twenties--when childhood is over, supposedly.

Author: Iris Smyles
Publisher: Soft Skull
Published: 05/14/2013
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781593765194
ISBN10: 1593765193
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Humorous | General

About the Author
Iris Smyles has written for numerous publications including Nerve, New York Press, McSweeney's and BOMB. She was awarded The Doris Lippman Prize for fiction, The Adria Schwartz Fiction Award, The Geraldine Griffin Moore Short Story Award and is a frequent contributor to Splice Today. She lives in New York.