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Choose Your Own Disaster
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A hilarious, quirky, and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman's terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping (and sometimes failing) to find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adulting.
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A hilarious, quirky, and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman's terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping (and sometimes failing) to find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adulting.
Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the terrible decisions she made in her early twenties through the internet's favourite method of self-knowledge: the quiz. Part-memoir, part-very long personality test, Choose Your Own Disaster is a manifesto about the millennial experience and modern feminism. It explores how the easy advice of "you can be anything you want!" is actually quite difficult when faced with the myriad possible versions of oneself.
Dana has no idea who she is, but she knows she's a Carrie, a Ravenclaw, a Raphael, a Belle, a former emo kid, a Twitter addict, and a millennial just trying her best.
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Dana Schwartz's Choose Your Own Disaster receives praise for its witty and humorous narrative, capturing the chaotic journey of self-discovery in one's twenties. Reviews highlight its relatable nature for millennials and its candid storytelling that pairs humour with introspection. The book is seen as an engaging and entertaining memoir, blending personal disasters with insightful reflections.
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ISBN: 9781478970392
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 July 2018
Country: United States
Imprint: Hachette Audio
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 137.0mm
Height: 205.0mm
Weight: 216g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Dana Schwartz is an arts and culture writer based in New York City with writing for The New Yorker, The Guardian, New York Observer, Marie Claire, Glamour, Mic, GQ, VICE, and more. She is currently a staff writer for Entertainment Weekly.
She created a parody Twitter account called @GuyInYourMFA based on the people she's encountered in fiction workshops, and another one called @DystopianYA about the tropes in all of the young adult fiction books she's read. Her own (non-dystopian) YA book, And We're Off, was published May 2017 by Penguin/Razorbil.Also by Dana Schwartz
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