Graduates in Wonderland: The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781592408603)

Two best friends document their post-college lives in a hilarious, relatable, and powerfully honest epistolary memoir.

Fast friends since they met at Brown University during their freshman year, Jessica Pan and Rachel Kapelke-Dale vowed to keep in touch after their senior year through in-depth--and brutally honest--weekly e-mails. After graduation, Jess packs up everything she owns and moves to Beijing on a whim, while Rachel heads to New York to work for an art gallery and to figure out her love life. Each spends the next few years tumbling through adulthood and reinventing themselves in various countries, including France, China, and Australia. Through their messages from around the world, they swap tales of teaching classes of military men, running a magazine, and flirting in foreign languages, along with the hard stuff: from harrowing accidents to breakups and breakdowns.

Reminiscent of Sloan Crosley's essays and Lena Dunham's Girls, Graduates in Wonderland is an intimate, no-holds-barred portrait of two young women as they embark upon adulthood.

Author: Jessica Pan, Rachel Kapelke-Dale
ISBN-10: 1592408605
ISBN-13: 9781592408603
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 05/06/2014
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2014
Publishers Weekly 04/21/2014