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Adulthood Is A Myth
112 pages
A hilarious, deeply relatable hug for anyone who feels like three toddlers stacked in a trench coat pretending to be a grown-up.
What it feels like
Reading this collection feels like catching up with your most honest, delightfully messy friend over a cup of tea you both forgot to drink while complaining about the horrors of socializing. It moves at a brisk, addictive pace, delivering punchy, bite-sized moments of pure commiseration. The atmosphere is a cozy kind of chaotic, wrapping the reader in a warm blanket of shared millennial anxiety, introversion, and imposter syndrome. The humor is sharp and self-deprecating, perfectly capturing the universal dread of answering emails, wearing hard pants, or pretending to have your life together. It is an absolute delight for chronic overthinkers and anyone who suspects that being a functional adult is just an elaborate prank everyone else is in on.
- Mood
- cozy
- chaotic
- commiserating
- lighthearted
- Tone
- self-deprecating
- frank
- hilarious
- anxious
- wry
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- millennial anxiety · introversion · imposter syndrome · absurdity of modern life · social awkwardness
- The writing
- Punchy, minimalist, and highly expressive, relying on sharp visual gags and perfectly timed, sparse dialogue.
- The arc
- Starts in the chaotic depths of everyday anxiety and builds into a comforting, laugh-out-loud sense of shared solidarity.
- Who it's for
- Introverts, chronic overthinkers, and anyone who feels like they are just faking their way through being a grown-up.
Content notes
- anxiety
- body image struggles
About the book
Adulthood is a myth confronts head-on the horrors, anxiety, and awkwardness of modern adult life. From the agony of holding hands with a gorgeous guy to the yawning pit of hell that is the wifi gone down to the eye-watering pain of eating too-hot pizza because one cannot stand to wait for it to cool down, Sarah fearlessly documents it all. Like the work of fellow Millennial authors Allie Brosh, Grace Helbig, and Gemma Correll, Sarah's total frankness on extremely personal issues such as body image, self-consciousness, introversion, relationships, and bra-washing makes her comics highly relatable and consistently hilarious.
Description from Open Library.
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