How to Grow Up: A Memoir

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As an aspiring young writer in San Francisco, Michelle lived in a scuzzy communal house; she drank, smoked, and snorted anything she got her hands on; she dated men and women and sometimes both at once; and she forged a literary career between hangovers and dead-end jobs. How did she get to become the mature, sober, thoughtful adult she is today At once heart-warming, darkly comic and unapologetically Michelle Tea, How To Grow Up is the book that will bring this incredibly talented writer the larger audience she deserves.

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Praise forHow 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, youll 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 writingspeaks 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

Author Bio

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.