She’s thirty-nine,  married, overextended, and deeply committed to pretending everything is fine. Her job at OmniGenTech involves color-coding spreadsheets and slowly dissolving into a puddle of passive-aggressive corporate jargon. Her hobbies include hoarding unfinished sketchbooks, writing personal essays she never shares, and quietly unraveling behind a very professional bob haircut.

Then one day, she doesn’t pretend. She quits.

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With no plan, limited savings, and a truly unnecessary amount of oat milk, Mallory sets out to reinvent herself through writing, art, and radical midlife honesty. What follows is a wry, emotionally chaotic quest for joy, truth, and maybe a publishing deal—if she can survive the imposter syndrome, her mom’s guilt trips, and one particularly dramatic plumbing disaster.

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A darkly funny, emotionally resonant debut about cracking open your life to find what’s real inside, Chicken Nugget Girl and Other Midlife Traumas is equal parts catharsis and chaos. Perfect for fans of heartfelt humor, awkward resilience, and snacks-as-coping-mechanisms. 

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Told with wit, heart, and a love of deep-fried emotional metaphors, Chicken Nugget Girl and Other Midlife Traumas is a humorous and poignant debut about breaking down to break through.

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Perfect for fans of Jenny Lawson, Nora Ephron, and anyone who’s ever whispered, “Is it too early to nap?” while rethinking their entire life.

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