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This Is Really Happening

Erin Chack

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Product Details
Format:
Paperback (BC)
ISBN:
9780448493596
Published:
01 May 2018
Publisher:
Penguin
Dimensions:
272 pages - 211 x 140 x 17mm

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In turns hysterically funny and heart breakingly poignant, Erin recounts everything from meeting her soulmate at age fourteen to her first chemotherapy session at age nineteen to what really goes on behind the scenes at a major Internet media company. She authentically captures the agony and the ecstasy of the millennial experience, whether it’s her first kiss (“Sean’s tongue! In my mouth! Slippery and wet like a slug in the rain.”) or her struggles with anxiety (“When people throw caution to the wind, I am stuck imagining the poor soul who has to break his back sweeping caution into a dustpan.”). Yet Erin also offers a fresh perspective on universal themes of resilience and love as she writes about surviving cancer - including learning of her mother’s own cancer diagnosis within the same year and her attempts to hide the diagnosis from friends to avoid “un-normaling” everything.
BuzzFeed senior writer Erin Chack hits you in the guts, the feels, and the funny bone all at once with this collection of personal essays that reads like Sloane Crosley for the Snapchat generation.
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