How to Grow Up

A Memoir

By: Michelle Tea

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Paperback | 27 January 2015 | Edition Number 1

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300 Pages

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18+

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20.3 x 13.5 x 1.5

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Darkly comic and affecting, HOW TO GROW UP is a punk rock memoir-in-essays about growing up without selling out, from a writer whose previous works have been called "impossible to put down" (People Magazine) and "raucous... and unapologetically raw." (New York Times)

"A gutsy, wise memoir-in-essays from a writer praised as 'impossible to put down'"-People

From PEN America Literary Award-winning author Michelle Tea comesa 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.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.

InHow 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 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,How to Grow Upproves 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.

"Wild, wickedly funny, and refreshingly relevant." -Elle

"This compulsively readable collection is so damn good, you'll tear through the whole thing (and possibly take notes along the way)." -Bustle

Industry Reviews

Praise for How To Grow Up

"Wild, wickedly funny, and refreshingly relevant." -Elle

"An impassioned and honest take on a difficult topic: life itself." -The Boston Globe

"Hilarious... Tea has a style, and a sense of humor, all her own." -The SF Gate

"Brave and unexpectedly wise....Michelle Tea is a goddess." -The SF Examiner

"Straight up riveting." -PAPER Magazine

..".This compulsively readable collection is so damn good, you'll tear through the whole thing (and possibly take notes along the way)." -Bustle

"An engaging and darkly funny memoir." -Kirkus

"Charming." -Publishers Weekly

"The peerless Michelle Tea reflects on her thoroughly extraordinary life." -Largehearted Boy

"Fascinating... a fearless and honest writer." -Flavorwire

"A beautiful book with plenty of self-effacing humor" -BoldItalic

"Her 'meandering and counterintuitive' path may not inspire imitators. But Tea's candid and colorful writing...speaks to her ability to function as an adult without losing sight of her wackier self." -Mother Jones

Praise for Michelle Tea:

"Raucous ... [and] unapologetically raw." --New York Times

"A+" -Entertainment Weekly

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