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Andrew Martin story collection 'Cool for America' features troubled strivers shuttling between the elite northeast and rough, charming Montana.

,” is more discerning — or she’s sure, at any rate, “what was good and what wasn’t.” New York, is a “nightmare of pointless ambition.” Princeton, where she’s from, teems with damaged kids “zapped awful by divorce and private school.” In Montana, where Leslie has ended up, she desperately seeks purpose. But just before Cal’s reading, her fellow 27-year-old friend Kim offers her perspective. “We’re just little babies.”“Drunk-ass babies,” Leslie corrects her, with mirth.

“Early Work” made an impressive number of best-of-2018 lists, and this set of interlocking pieces on young lives throttling back and forth between Montana and the northeast is bound for some more. Martin’s fictional universe of drugs and disappointment, cleverness and self-doubt, shot through with flashes of crackling lucidity, is funny but empathetic toward its deeply flawed characters.

’s beautiful and insightful 1992 debut, “Jesus’s Son,” “Cool for America” thrives in the same gorgeous space between chaos and contemplation. In short: Bad people can be good, and they’re generally fun to read about.,” in which a grown brother and sister have just limped their way home to New Jersey for Christmas from their separate desultory pursuits. Both are alive to the weirdness of the world in that twitchy and fragile way of people either in recovery or in need of it.

 

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