On the surface, the story seems to be about white, rich, cute Bonnie who knows she’s is living in a time loop in the week of her birthday and exploring it in a surprising variety of ways, but all this is on top of the story about Bonnie’s unknowing roommate, who through her narration of each iteration relates to us her life as a sexual assault survivor.
—Michael Main
They told me that she showed up at their house yesterday, completely frazzled, telling a wild tale about a week that was repeating over and over again.

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  1. “Now Wait for This Week” by Alice Sola Kim, in The Cut, 17 January 2019 [e-zine] [The January 2022 online publication in The Cut is a preview story from A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams (One World, February 2019) [print · e-book].].
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Alice Sola Kim

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  1. Title—The title is an homage to Philip K. Dick’s novel Now Wait for Last Year.