How to Grow Up: A Memoir
Tea Michelle
A gutsy, wise memoir-in-essays from a writer praised as “impossible to put down” (People)
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; & she dated men & women, & sometimes both at once. But between hangovers & dead-end jobs, she scrawled in notebooks & organized dive bar poetry readings, working to make her literary dreams real.
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 Barney’s while shopping at thrift stores, about breakups & the fertile ground between relationships, about roommates & rent, & about being superstitious (“why not, it imbues this harsh world of ours with a bit of magic.”).
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; & she dated men & women, & sometimes both at once. But between hangovers & dead-end jobs, she scrawled in notebooks & organized dive bar poetry readings, working to make her literary dreams real.
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 Barney’s while shopping at thrift stores, about breakups & the fertile ground between relationships, about roommates & rent, & 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 Up proves that the road less traveled may be a difficult one, but if you embrace life’s uncertainty & dust yourself off after every screw up, slowly but surely you just might make it to adulthood.
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Michelle Tea is the author of numerous books, including Black Wave, Valencia, & How to Grow Up. She is the creator of the Sister Spit all-girl open mic, & founded RADAR Productions, a literary nonprofit that oversees queer-centric projects. Currently she curates Amethyst Editions, a queer imprint of the Feminist Press.
Tahun:
2015
Penerbit:
Plume, Penguin Publishing Group
Bahasa:
english
ISBN 10:
0698150813
ISBN 13:
9780698150812
File:
EPUB, 881 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2015