Sophie Passmann is a media phenom and Jill of all trades. Like Lena Dunham in the US or Caitlin Moran in the UK, she views the world from the standpoint of a woman who refuses to be pigeonholed. At the age of 27, she decides it’s time to do an inventory – and she means it quite literally. A literary memoir that’s both mean and mild, sharp and funny.
Taking her apartment's interior as a starting point, the narrator takes to task the milieu she doesn't want to belong to, but from which she cannot escape either - the cozy and curated world of bookshelves on parquet floors, wine tastings and risotto-making. Like many people of a certain age and a biography like hers (white middle class millenial with an academic education and a parental safety net) she struggles with recognizing her own privileges, with all those expectations around being young, and with the age-old question of who she actually wants to be.
Passmann's view of her surroundings is unsparing, yet neither cynical nor naive. She puts into brilliant and witty words the experiences of many of her peers.
"Komplett Gänsehaut replaces a shelve meter of contemporary sociological literature." — Der Spiegel
