?It's My Year of Rest and Relaxation but with fewer pills and more boats.? ?Entertainment
Weekly A moving and darkly comic debut novel about an anxious young woman who administers a
self-made ?placebo? treatment in a last-ditch attempt to rebuild her life Amy Hanley has a job
as a maid for the summer but on August 25 she will take the exam to become an EMT (third
time's the charm!) and finally move on with her life. In the meantime she doesn't mind
scrubbing toilets immaculately clean or tucking the sheet corners just so. In fact she tells
herself that her work is a noble act of service to the rich guests at the yacht club. Amy's
profound isolation colors everything: her job her aspirations even her interactions with the
woman at the deli counter. And as the date for the EMT exam comes closer Amy's anxiety
ratchets up in a way that is both familiar and troubling. In desperation she concocts a
?placebo? program?a self-prescribed regimen for her confidence devised to trick herself into
succeeding. When her landlord Gary starts to invite her over for dinner?to practice his
cooking skills as he awaits approval of his Ukrainian fiancé's visa?Amy makes her first friend
since her mother's passing. Alongside this unexpected connection comes a surge of hopeful
obsession that Amy knows she must reckon with before the summer's end. Tender and
laugh-out-loud funny Nobody Somebody Anybody explores the shadowy corners of a young woman's
inner world of grief delusion and self-loathing revealing the creeping loneliness of modern
life and our endless search for connection. Kelly McClorey captures the hilarity and heartbreak
of American ambition.
