# This Should Be Written in the Present Tense

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- Authors: [Helle Helle](https://www.bookquiver.com/helle-helle)
- Publisher: Soft Skull
- ISBN: 978-15-9376-633-7
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2016-01-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Capturing what it feels like to be twenty-something and already disappearing, not with a bang, but with a slow exhale, This Should Be Written in the Present Tense reveals the particular paralysis of a...