{"product_id":"how-to-grow-up-michelle-tea-9780142181195","title":"How to Grow Up: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A gutsy, wise memoir-in-essays from a writer praised as 'impossible to put down'\"--\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom PEN America Literary Award-winning author Michelle Tea comes a moving personal essay collection about the trials and triumphs of shedding your vices in order to find yourself.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eHow to Grow Up\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 Barney's while shopping at thrift stores, about breakups and the fertile ground between relationships, about roommates and rent, and about being superstitious (\"why not, it imbues this harsh world of ours with a bit of magic\"). At once heartwarming and darkly comic, \u003ci\u003e How to Grow Up\u003c\/i\u003e proves that the road less traveled may be a difficult one, but if you embrace life's uncertainty and dust yourself off after every screw up, slowly but surely, you just might make it to adulthood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Wild, wickedly funny, and refreshingly relevant.\" --\u003ci\u003eElle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\"This compulsively readable collection is so damn good, you'll tear through the whole thing (and possibly take notes along the way).\" --Bustle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michelle Tea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0142181196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780142181195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Plume Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/10\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2015 pg. 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2015 pg. 121","brand":"Michelle Tea","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990090055935,"sku":"9780142181195","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_04875e32-c359-42d7-937b-3150eaa9f379.jpg?v=1683302941","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-to-grow-up-michelle-tea-9780142181195","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}