By Madeleine Gray
Hera is a 24 year old woman, who holds 3 degrees, probably because she doesn’t want to work. Maybe this is not the best way to describe Hera. Let me start again.
Hera is a 24 year old woman, who is trying hard to figure out what she wants out of life, her life. She has no interest in working, unlike her friends. And ends up pursuing more degrees to evade from it. She is a smart girl, who is self-aware. But she doesn’t get along the ways how the world works.
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She then decides, she still can’t pose studying and applies for a job. It is a content moderator job, in a newspaper firm. And she gets it. Her boss Alison, has been working for so long in the same job, that she has kind of become mechanical on how stuffs should work in the office. There is a clear divide in the office between the journalists and the content moderators. Hera doesn’t like any inch of this place or the job, but finds Mei Ling’s company in internal IM rather helpful in crossing each day.
She shares a close relationship with her dad. Her dad is one of the most pleasant characters the book has to offer. The three of them, along with Jude, their dog, have a warm home. Hera’s social circle works for hang outs, but she is most close to Soph and Sarah, among the women nothing stays a secret.
Hera meets Arthur in her office, who is a journalist and starts talking to him. Things develop between the two interestingly. Hera quickly becomes the other woman and the tone is set for the rest of the book.
It’s about….
Green Dot goes further along the lines of Hera’s love, adultery, confusion and self introspection.
Hera is left with a constant chaotic spiral. Throughout all this, she still has her friends and her dad caring for her and supporting her, irrespective of the bad decisions she ends up taking. How she tackles incessant disappointments and guilt, takes decisions – the role of her feelings in them and the consequent events lay down the trajectory of the story.
Green Dot is a very interesting read, if you like reading about the affairs, desolation and dry humor.
Personally, this is my first book of such a theme, and it left me wondering often. It gave me new perspectives of things I have never given a thought before. The coming of age story seems pretty normal in the first few chapters and goes on to become a heart-wrenching one.
Madeleine Gray has done a great job in creating an introspecting novel, with her attempt to nail down every sentence to perfection.
Rating: 4/5
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