A review by zarallee
Good Things Happen to People You Hate: Essays by Rebecca Fishbein

2.0

I expected to like this quite a lot given how quickly I judged the book by its title and decided that the author had to be excellent. Unfortunately, I think a lot of the essays just don't really come together? I have enjoyed many similar essay collections in this niche genre of slightly quippy, personal essays by young female writers who have lived in New York, but again and again, as I got to the end of each essay/chapter, I found myself disappointed that the story had not really...had a point or shown some kind of direction within the author's life. There are some good lines and some good insights, but there is no sense of direction, purpose, centrality? I skipped around and started skimming through chapters. Despite this, I commend the author for an excellent title that sold me on the book sight unseen!