One's Company

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Available when you open an account from 10/10/23 - 12/31/23. Some restrictions apply. See terms for details. For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Mona Awad, this fearless debut chronicles one woman’s escape into a world of obsessive imagination.Oh, also wanted to mention that the writing was great! Never had any issues with it and every paragraph was smooth like butter. I think I highlighted more passages in this than I usually do, too. I was functionally human. Why, then, had that life always felt like a pastime, just something I was doing while waiting for my other self, the actualized, better version of myself, to come along and make it real? APYs are as of 9/28/2023, but may change at any time before or after account opening. Fees may reduce earnings on this account.

If that blurb doesn't catch your eye then this book might not be for you, which is a total shame because it's an incredible read that's a standout from the genre. Per literary fiction standards, the pacing takes awhile to find its footing in the beginning and timelines lazily alternate between past and present, but it's never boring. Observing Bonnie's manic stream of consciousness and descent into madness is equally fascinating and frightening. It poses a few moral questions for the reader about the connection between trauma and mental fixations, namely whether it's morally acceptable to allow trauma survivors to escape reality by immersing themselves in strange fantasies only if they are secluded from civilization. Bonnie Lincoln just wants to be left alone. To come home from work, shut out the voice that reminds her of some devastating losses, and unwind in front of the nostalgic, golden glow of her favorite TV show, Three’s Company. Q5 writing task will focus on article writing, expressing viewpoints and developing ideas of transport: cars and public transport. Grade 9 model speech response included. If it isn't obvious already, One's Company is astonishingly well-written. Hutson created an empathetic narrative for a rather unlikeable and unreliable protagonist and you'll be surprised by how emotional you'll be for Bonnie at the end. Side stories aren't extraneous, the storyline itself is absurd but deeply absorbing, and you won't want to put this book down. (I read this in two days and immediately wanted to re-read it!)Not quite an unreliable narrator, we believe Bonnie when she tells us not to chalk her new life up to mental illness (only nihilism and rage), but the longer she lives in the world of Three’s Company, the less healthy she seems. Perhaps punishment is inevitable for those who embrace farce. Fun trivia: What TV or movie set would YOU recreate and live in if you had ridiculous amounts of money? I would recreate Gotham City! I already have a few of the props and costumes.

this novel is sharply relatable in ways that are often difficult to articulate. the reader is immersed in bonnie's loneliness, her longing, and her determination to escape. after surviving a horrible assault and losing the only parent figures in her sad life, the only thing that gives her comfort is three's company. she is so sure that living within her favorite show, with all its familiar details, will be the transformation she needs. she will leave behind the old bonnie and live as the show's characters. she will leave behind all the pain of her old life. i feel for her so much. even as we learn that she is perhaps not the most reliable narrator, and even as she makes unkind and unlikable choices, her emotional resonance never ceases. One's Company is ambitiously creative, thought-provoking, top-shelf literary fiction about trauma and obsession and is guaranteed to be one of your new favorite reads. This was a tremendously unique story in many ways, but at its core it is a reflection on trauma and how we process (or fail to process) it. It’s a fascinating and sad look at how something we enjoy can become an obsession and how easy it is to avoid our problems and get lost in our obsessions. What first appears as a quirky-cute spin on the idea of what you'd do with lottery winnings and a nostalgia-injected romp through what money can buy, Hutson delves further and further into where the line of madness lies.This book is such a savvy, deadpan, moving meditation-unto-absurdity on obsession and trauma and throwaway television and the ways that our hobbies can hurt us and heal us and sometimes overwhelm us. I absolutely loved it." As an example, for my company’s 15th birthday, we held a global birthday party complete with a virtual cake cutting. Each international office was projected onto a big screen Brady Bunch style (i.e., in little squares), allowing our thousands of colleagues from across the world to see each other and celebrate the milestone together. I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, so Three’s Company was definitely a show I watched frequently. But even if you’ve never heard of the show, Ashley Hutson gives you enough details to understand what it was about. Our employees from around the globe sent congratulatory notes to our UK office, truly reinforcing the sense that, at the end of the day, we are one company.

I should add that money is no problem for Bonnie because she's just won the biggest lottery payout in US history! She moves to a remote locale and uses her winnings to build a replica of the show's set, including the apartment building the cast members lived in and the surrounding businesses that resemble a small town. Then she begins living her 'dream come true' by immersing herself in becoming the cast members. Bizarre, right? Ashley Hutson's novel fearlessly takes on trauma, loneliness, madness, and desire in wholly unexpected ways. The dazzling imagination of the novel's formidable protagonist, Bonnie Lincoln, is rivaled only by that of her brilliant creator: One's Company is a totally original, bitterly funny, and emotionally complex tale about the power of fantasy to both save and destroy the things we cherish." - Maryse Meijer

The author got too carried away with description, like her writing assignment was to be very articulate and dig deep into the appearance of the set, leaving nothing out. Bonnie hired a huge crew to create the elaborate, multi-room setup exactly how she wanted it—she was pretty overbearing when it came to the worker bees. I know what you're thinking: "I don't know anything about a show from the 70s, how will this be enjoyable to me?" I thought that too, though I have seen a few episodes here and there so it wasn't a completely foreign concept, but it's okay if it is! That about sums up what the main character, Bonnie, believes and uses to justify her deep dive into the pursuit of perfect isolation. She's suffered tremendous trauma which has lead to her to want an alternate reality - one where she's in absolute control of events and emotion. When she wins the lottery, she's able to build an authentic perfect world (The sets from the TV show, Three's Company) where she's safe and untouchable. Obviously, things don't go as expected. Oh boy. This one was a doozy and quite honestly unlike anything I’ve ever read. One’s Company is the story of Bonnie Lincoln. From the start, it’s clear Bonnie has some eccentricities and prefers to keep to herself, which are a result of her own upbringing and of a traumatic incident that killed most of her adopted family and resulted in her own sexual assault. Her main escape from her memories and her PTSD is her favorite show - Three’s Company.