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Choose your own disaster

Choose your own disaster

A. a memoir, B. a personality quiz, C. a mostly true and completely honest look at one young woman's attempt to find herself, D. all of the above
Biography & MemoirEssays
Pages
260
Published
2018
Language
English

Synopsis

Dana Schwartz revisits the often-terrible decisions of her early twenties, using the internet's favorite method of self-knowledge: the quiz. This part-memoir, part-personality test explores the millennial experience and modern feminism. It highlights the difficulty of navigating the many possible versions of oneself when the advice to 'be anything you want' proves challenging.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

FunnyLightheartedReflectiveThought-Provoking
Coming of Age

Genres

Biography & Memoir Essays Self-Help & Psychology Biography Humor

About the author

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Dana Schwartz

Dana Schwartz is an American author, journalist, and podcaster who hosts the history podcast Noble Blood. Her novel Anatomy: A Love Story, a gothic romance set in 19th-century Edinburgh, was a number-one New York Times and Indie bestseller and a Reese's Book Club YA pick; its sequel is Immortality. She has also written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and GQ.