After Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried About
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
If Klee's dissection of dead dogs and dead-end relationships made you feel violently seen, this delivers that same diary-ripped-open intensity—but now your 20-something spiral involves a married professor, a broke best friend, and the kind of loyalty-testing disaster that ends friendships or immortalizes them. O'Donoghue captures the hormone-fueled wreckage of post-college life with the specificity of a group chat screenshot: recession-era humiliations, terrible workplace schemes, and the masochistic nostalgia for when every betrayal felt like the end of the world.