How to Grow Up: A Memoir

How to Grow Up: A Memoir

â€œA gutsy, wise memoir-in-essays from a writer praised as â€˜impossible to put downâ€™â€â€”People

From the author of the acclaimed genre-bending Black Wave comes this moving personal essay collection about the trials and triumphs of shedding your vices in order to find yourself.

As an aspiring young writer in San Francisco, Michelle Tea lived in a scuzzy communal house: she drank; she smoked; she snorted anything she got her hands on; she toiled for the minimum wage; she dated men and women, and sometimes both at once.Â But between hangovers and dead-end jobs, she scrawled in notebooks and organized dive bar poetry readings, working to make her literary dreams a reality.
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InÂ How to Grow Up, Tea shares her awkward stumble towards the life of a Bona Fide Grown-Up: healthy, responsible, self-aware, and stable. She writes about passion, about her fraught relationship with money, about adoring Barneyâ€™s while shopping at thrift stores, about breakups and the fertile ground between relationships, about roommates and rent, and about being superstitious (â€œwhy not, it imbues this harsh world of ours with a bit of magicâ€).Â At once heartwarming and darkly comic,Â How to Grow UpÂ proves that the road less traveled may be a difficult one, but if you embrace lifeâ€™s uncertainty and dust yourself off after every screw up, slowly but surely, you just might make it to adulthood.
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â€œWild, wickedly funny, and refreshingly relevant.â€ â€”ElleÂ

â€œThis compulsively readable collection is so damn good, youâ€™ll tear through the whole thing (and possibly take notes along the way).â€ â€”Bustle
Country USA
Brand Plume
Manufacturer Plume
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780142181195
Color Burgundy/maroon
ReleaseDate 2015-01-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780142181195

Country	USA
Brand	Plume
Manufacturer	Plume
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780142181195
Color	Burgundy/maroon
ReleaseDate	2015-01-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780142181195

How to Grow Up: A Memoir

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