Today, LitNuts is shining a spotlight on The Year of Rejection, an unflinchingly honest memoir from Lithuanian-Irish writer Hope Mills.
The Year of Rejection
Genre: MemoirPaperback: $12.56
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A new voice debuts with an unflinchingly honest memoir: the story of a desperate return to the self after decades of depression.
Hope Mills is an immigrant overachiever until an unexpected eviction leaves her homeless. She descends into psychosis for the next year, bleeding depression onto the corners of her sociology textbooks. Hope digs into atypical anorexia and avoidant attachment, deflating her passions into passive suicide. But it didn't start with the eviction.
Hope Mills is twelve years old when she moves from Ireland to Lithuania. In one swoop, she loses her father, brother, and Catholic schoolgirl identity, landing in a town of 900 people where everyone knows her name. She battles a generational, cultural, and language barrier at home and at school, quickly collapsing into a hostile teenager. On this shaky foundation, Hope attempts suicide twice in six years. But when she graduates, she returns to Ireland to begin her life. By her third year of college, Hope seems to have everything figured out—until her new world crumbles beneath her feet.
About the Author
Dovilė Milišauskaitė, better known by her pen name, Hope Mills, is a Lithuanian-Irish writer. Her work explores mental health, grief, and coming-of-age. Sometimes it's fictional, sometimes it's not. Hope graduated from University College Dublin, Ireland's largest university, with a BSc in Sociology, Politics & International Relations in 2023. She splits her time between Dublin and Ignalina. Learn more by following her online:
