How to Grow Up: A Memoir

ISBN-13: 9780142181195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 304 str.

Michelle Tea

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A gutsy, wise memoir-in-essays from a writer praised as impossible to put down People
From the author of the acclaimed genre-bending Black Wave comes this 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"

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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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Michelle Tea is a PEN America Literary Award-winning author. She is the creator and editor of Mutha Magazine, and founder and Artistic Director of RADAR Productions, a literary organization that produces monthly reading series, the international Sister Spit performance tour, the Sister Spit Books imprint on City Lights, and other events. She lives in San Francisco with her partner Dashiell and their dog, Charlie.