182:. In 1986, she relocates to New York City, where she meets her soon-to-be best friend Baby. Baby saved her by beating up her cheating boyfriend. The two of them go back to live with Adeline's mother in Pasadena in 1988. Two years later Adeline graduates from Parsons University. In 1993, Adeline moves in with Jeremy Winterbloss and his wife Minerva when they go to San Francisco in 1996. While living with them, Adeline finds she is pregnant. The father was her boyfriend at the time, Nash Mac. Around this time, Jeremy and Adeline decide to produce a
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acknowledge the fact that “this technology which seems to be really good at enabling misogyny and abuse of women was created in rooms where there were no women.” Kobek feels as though
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are agreeable, many of them are not and are quite embarrassing. Her use of
Twitter causes Emil to reach out to her. Emil says he finds her use of Twitter embarrassing. The video of her speech has gone viral and people even come up to her in the streets asking if she is the woman from YouTube. She takes to lying to them and saying that she is actually
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Twitter and respond. Next, she calls J. Karacehennem. He tells her to just let it pass over at least it is boosting the sale of Trill after 10 years. Baby doesn't
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J. Karacehennem and they become friends. Jeremy and
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Adeline is at a party with people that she barely knows. She leaves and meets with Minerva and one of her partners, Salaam. Someone finally recognizes her as Adeline and she is unable to get away by pretending to be Marina Abramović. As Adeline leaves, she asks to meet up with Erik. Erik is
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Internet is the enemy of the intellect. The novel mentions the popularity of Twitter among the black community, which Kobek states is ironic because Twitter was responsible for “revitalizing” (gentrifying) a poor, primarily black neighborhood to house their
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Adeline is a "central personage" of the novel. She is a mid-forty illustrator/comic book artist from
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