by Eli Rallo
First published 2020
She types her thoughts into her phone as she moves through Manhattan. Each note becomes a poem, capturing moments of confusion, longing, and discovery in her twenties. The city pulses around her while she tries to figure out who she is and where she belongs. Her phone holds fragments of late nights, failed connections, and small revelations. These digital scraps form a portrait of someone learning to exist in a world that feels too big and too small at once. The poems reveal the gap between what she expected adulthood to be and what it actually feels like. Through iPhone notes, she documents the messy reality of being young and lost in New York.
Genres: literary-fiction, american-fiction, contemporary, adult-fiction, 21st-century, new-adult
Vibes: emotional, intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: coming-of-age, found-family, slice-of-life
Setting: Manhattan, New York
Period: 21st-century
137 pages · Paperback · Independently published