My manuscript follows two dysfunctional and co-dependent best friends navigating their early twenties. The friends, Phoebe and Nat, are tied together through grief — they have both lost their mothers, and neither is fully willing to admit how the loss unraveled her life. Phoebe's loss occurs a few months before the manuscript's start. Her wounds are new and raw, and she is struggling with depression. Nat's grief is a decade old, and the impact of her loss is seen in obsessive behaviors. She becomes overly involved in Phoebe's life, and her drinking borders on alcoholism. Together, the girls are equally lost. The manuscript's ultimate goal is to analyze grief, depression, and the idea of becoming a woman after your primary female influence is gone....

The idea for this story originated from my desire to see a young woman struggling on the page. Coming-of-age stories that center women in their early-twenties are largely underrepresented. I wanted to tell that story with humor and raw honesty. What is the story of a twenty-two-year-old, who is struggling with grief and depression? How would those emotions affect her relationships? How would she look and act and speak? These were the questions I wanted to answer, and I will continue to answer them as I write the novel....

Totally Fine is a coming-of-age novel that follows Phoebe, a twenty-two-year-old woman who has lost her mother a few months before the story begins. In the midst of her grief, she graduates college and is launched into adulthood. She struggles to find her own identity, and drama with her closest friends ensues....