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Arbitrary Stupid Goal

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One of The New Yorker‘s “Books We Loved in 2017”

Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a fully riveting world―when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and secure and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of living.” ―Miranda July

In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-go back and forth travel to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a funky, tight-knit small town in the big city, long before Sex and the City tours and luxury condos. The center of Tamara’s universe is Shopsin’s, her circle of relatives’s legendary greasy spoon, aka “The Store,” run by her inimitable dad, Kenny―a loquacious, contrary, huge-hearted man who, excluding dishing up New York’s best egg salad on rye, is Village sheriff, philosopher, and fixer abruptly. All comers find a place at Shopsin’s table and feast on Kenny’s tall tales and trenchant advice together with the incomparable chili con carne.

Filled with clever illustrations and witty, nostalgic photographs and graphics, and told in a sly, elliptical narrative that may be both hilarious and endearing, Arbitrary Stupid Goal is an offbeat memory-book mosaic about the secrets of living an unconventional life, which is becoming a forgotten art.


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