{"product_id":"how-to-grow-up","title":"How to Grow Up","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow to Grow Up\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Tea shares her awkward stumble towards the life of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"atm_keep-reading-flag\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003csmall data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-arrow-down\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e How to Grow Up\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Tea, Michelle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43729179771104,"sku":"","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/9780142181195.jpg?v=1670540978","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/how-to-grow-up","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}