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No, I'd rather do Xanax then cut myself, one protagonist muses, while another discovers the infinite nature of love, another reminisces about sunsets that were pinker, like way pinker, and another encounters God in a downtown video game arcade. To find and keep faith is the order of the day--but how? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor readers of Patricia Lockwood, Bret Easton Ellis, and the depths of the internet, and for anyone who would like to see Generation Z from the inside out, \u003ci\u003eMy First Book\u0026gt;\u003c\/i\u003eholds the key. 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