Elizabeth Gonzalez James Releases The Book Mona At Sea

Published: Aug. 21, 2021, midnight

In 2008 on the eve of the Great Recession, high-achieving Mona Mireles finds herself unemployed, living with her parents, and widely mocked after becoming the subject of a viral video dubbed “Sad Millennial.” She begins a downward spiral into self-pity, bitterness, and late-night drunken binges on cat videos…and tequila. She graduated top of her class, she had a job offer from Wall Street, she was meant to do more than this! Will the unemployment support group her overbearing mother forced her to join help her open her eyes? Will a role as a phone operator at a call center help solve all of her problems? Will she ever emerge out of the lethargy of life boredom?