In Believer: Volume Sixteen, Meghan McDonnell flies to France for a wedding and travel. She continues acting classes and auditioning while working unfulfilling day jobs. She reads and keeps writing, intent to unravel the mysteries of life and herself.

With searing candor, McDonnell distills daily life with uncommon humor and honesty. In brilliant, lyrical prose she brings depth and illumination to themes of family, friendship, ambition, love, redemption, and identity to reveal a detailed glimpse of the universal.

Her powerful observations and deeply felt insights about the human condition, struggles and transcendence included, reveal a courageous woman holding up a light in the thick of life as it happens.