How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9781101911587ISBN-10:1101911581UPC:9781101911587Book Category:Self-Help, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Personal Growth, EmotionsSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC09BAPE6Q
New York Times Bestseller - From the "best advice columnist of her generation" (Esquire) comes a hilarious, frank, and witty collection of all-new responses, plus a few greatest hits from the beloved "Ask Polly" column in New York magazine's The Cut.
Should you quit your day job to follow your dreams? How do you rein in an overbearing mother? Will you ever stop dating wishy-washy, noncommittal guys? Should you put off having a baby for your career? Heather Havrilesky is here to guide you through the "what if's" and "I don't knows" of modern life with the signature wisdom and tough love her readers have come to expect. Whether she's responding to cheaters or loners, lovers or haters, the anxious or the down-and-out, Havrilesky writes with equal parts grace, humor, and compassion to remind you that even in your darkest moments you're not alone.
Should you quit your day job to follow your dreams? How do you rein in an overbearing mother? Will you ever stop dating wishy-washy, noncommittal guys? Should you put off having a baby for your career? Heather Havrilesky is here to guide you through the "what if's" and "I don't knows" of modern life with the signature wisdom and tough love her readers have come to expect. Whether she's responding to cheaters or loners, lovers or haters, the anxious or the down-and-out, Havrilesky writes with equal parts grace, humor, and compassion to remind you that even in your darkest moments you're not alone.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9781101911587ISBN-10:1101911581UPC:9781101911587Book Category:Self-Help, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Personal Growth, EmotionsSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC09BAPE6Q
HEATHER HAVRILESKY is the author of the memoir Disaster Preparedness. She has written for New York magazine, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, The New Yorker, NPR's All Things Considered, and several anthologies. She was a TV critic at Salon for seven years. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and a loud assortment of dependents, most of them nondeductible.
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