How to Grow Up: A Memoir

How to Grow Up: A Memoir

A gutsy, wise memoir-in-essays from a writer praised as â€œimpossible to put downâ€ (People)
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As an aspiring young writer in San Francisco, Michelle Tea lived in a scuzzy communal house; she drank, smoked, snorted anything she got her hands on; she toiled for the minimum wage; and 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 real.
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In How to Grow Up, Tea shares her awkward stumble towards the life of a Bonafide Grown-Up: healthy, responsible, self-aware, 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 magic.â€)Â At once heartwarming and darkly comic, How to Grow Up 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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Plume
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-01-27
Format Kindle eBook

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