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Go The Fuck To College

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When your kid is little, the paradoxes of parenting are simple: you can love your child to death, and also be willing to do anything to get them to go the fuck to sleep. But by the time your precious little baby bird is getting ready... Read More
Format: Hardback
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This laugh-out-loud, latest installment in Adam Mansbach's profane, #1 New York Times best-selling series, probably CAN be read to--and by--your graduating child, though it might bring you all to tears

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When your kid is little, the paradoxes of parenting are simple: you can love your child to death, and also be willing to do anything to get them to go the fuck to sleep.

But by the time your precious little baby bird is getting ready to spread its wings and leave the nest? That's a whole different level of complexity. You're happy and sad. Thrilled and devastated. You want to give them all the advice you can, but you know they've got to make their own mistakes. You want them to know they can always come home, but also you're turning their bedroom into a gym.

With Adam Mansbach's trademark honesty, humour, and profanity, Go the Fuck to College perfectly captures the complicated emotional reality of this poignant, fraught, exciting time. A perfect gift for any graduating seniorβ€”or their parents or grandparentsβ€”this book somehow encapsulates everything you'd ever want to tell your kid... along with a few things you'd never dream of saying out loud.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781636142920

Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 May 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Akashic Books,U.S.

Illustration: 1 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Owen Brozman

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 164.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 28

About the Author

Adam Mansbach is a novelist, screenwriter, humorist, and cultural critic (in addition to having built an obscene fake children's book empire). His books include Rage Is Back, the California Book Award-winning The End of the Jews, and the best sellers Angry Black White Boy and For This We Left Egypt?, cowritten with Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. Mansbach was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his screenplay for the Netflix Original Barry, and is currently adapting his middle-grade novel Jake the Fake Keeps It Real for the Disney Channel. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and on National Public Radio's This American Life, the Moth, and All Things Considered. Owen Brozman is the illustrator of the New York Times bestseller You Have to Fucking Eat, Kindness & Salt, Fuck, Now There Are Two of You, and the acclaimed graphic novel Nature of the Beast. He has illustrated for National Geographic, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York, Ninja Tune, Scholastic, and numerous other clients. His work has been recognized by 3x3 magazine, the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, Creative Quarterly, and many more. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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