"Virginie Despentes\'s Vernon Subutex trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read.
Like the last decade, it searches for a happy ending that isn\'t.
It] has dupes and assholes and racists and the people they hate and a stunning diversity of internal monologues and trans true love. . .
Everything about it is contemporary, right down to the fearless woman author who doesn\'t think of herself as a feminist and gives an impression at least in interviews of habitually killing rapists . "Virginie Despentes\'s Vernon Subutex trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read