So Much Synth

"Over the last two decades Shaughnessy has stripped herself down to a voice that can sing plainly about disappointment and love in hard circumstances and the lost art of the mix tape."— The Paris Review

"Shaughnessy finds ever new ways to rend the heart in this biting and poignant anthropological study of girlhood and adolescence."— Publishers Weekly

Subversions of idiom and cliché punctuate Brenda Shaughnessy's fourth collection as she approaches middle age and re…