The girl who never read Noam Chomsky

Casale, Jana2019

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We first meet Leda in a coffee shop on an average afternoon, notable only for the fact that she will eat two scones in one day. And for the cute boy reading 'American Power and the New Mandarins'. Leda hopes that, by engaging him, their banter will lead to romance. Their fleeting, awkward exchange stalls before flirtation blooms. But Leda's left with one imperative thought: she decides she wants to read Noam Chomsky. So she promptly buys a book and never-ever-reads it. As the days, years, and decades of the rest of her life unfold, we see all of the things Leda does instead, from eating leftover spaghetti in her college apartment, to fumbling through the first days home with her newborn daughter, to attempting to garden in her old age. In a collage of these small moments, we see the work, both visible and invisible, of a woman trying to carve out a life of meaning.