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Almost Adulting: All You Need to Know to Get It Together (Sort Of)

by Arden Rose

A candid, visual guide to the messy business of growing up

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A candid, visual guide to the messy business of growing up

Arden Rose organizes everyday adulthood questions into a mix of essays, lists, and artwork, covering online friendships, dating and communication, food, clothing on a limited budget, solo travel, hygiene, and sex. The book frames these subjects through the uneven, still-figuring-it-out reality suggested by its title, rather than presenting adulthood as a finished state. A new paperback chapter adds Rose’s travel tips, extending the practical material beyond home life and relationships. Its range moves between basic self-management and social situations, with an emphasis on navigating unfamiliar responsibilities and interactions.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults seeking an informal guide to early-adulthood basics
  • Fans of essay-and-list formats with artwork
  • Readers interested in practical topics such as dating, online safety, budgeting clothes, and solo travel

Themes

Growing upRelationships and communicationOnline interactionsSelf-care and independenceTravel

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Book overview

For fans of Grace Helbig and Alexa Chung comes a fresh, hilariousguide to growing up your way from social media influencer and lifestyle vlogger Arden Rose. Now in paperback with a brand-new chapter with tips from Arden about how to travel in style!

In Almost Adulting--perfect for budding adults, failing adults, and eaters of microwave mug brownies--Arden tells you how to survive your future adulthood. Topics include:

  • Making internet friends who are cool and not murderers
  • Flirting with someone in a way to make them think you are cool and not a murderer
  • Being in an actual relationship where you talk about your feelings in a healthy manner To the other person
  • Eating enough protein
  • Assembling a somewhat acceptable adult wardrobe when you have zero dollars
  • Going on adventures without starting to smell
  • How sex is supposed to feel, but, like, actually though

By the end of the book--a mash-up of essays, lists, and artwork--you'll have learned not only how to dress yourself, how to travel alone, how to talk to strangers online, and how to date strangers (in PERSON!), but also how to pass as a real, functioning, appropriately socialized adult.

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