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Tom is giving “you like huey lewis and the news? their early work was a little too new wave for my taste”

what would readers do without the character Sam who randomly monologues about the theme of the book? i’d be so clueless without him, my hero 🥰

reads like a YA novel attempting at grown up concepts. shame bc the premise is cool but id swear a middle schooler with access to youtube breakdowns of the dangers of consumerism wrote this while watching tiktok snippets of reality tv sorrrrry