![]() BookTok creators showcase a stack of Sad Girl books alongside coquettish, aesthetic symbols like lip gloss, pearls, and heart-shaped sunglasses while a Lana Del Rey or Mitski song plays in the background. Most recently, this archetype has been pathologized on BookTok, a subcommunity of booklovers on TikTok. ![]() Nothing can cut through the disaffection, the constant desire not to exist. She mostly, if not only, dates unavailable men. ![]() She’s either unemployed and broke or working a meaningless job that she’ll lose before the third act. A young white woman, unable to confront the grief, trauma, and/or mental illness that numbs her (think: Esther in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar), makes a radical - albeit self-destructive - change (think: the unnamed narrator of Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation putting herself to sleep for a year using prescription drugs). During the summer of 2020, a certain kind of literary heroine regained popularity on social media. ![]()
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