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Everything Is Going to Be Great

by Rachel Shukert

A cash-strapped European grand tour meets the messiness of early adulthood

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Awards & Recognition

  • Critical praise

    Praised by the Los Angeles Times

    The Los Angeles Times praised Shukert’s comic writing.

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A cash-strapped European grand tour meets the messiness of early adulthood

Rachel Shukert’s memoir traces a twenties-era journey through Vienna, Amsterdam, Zurich, and Paris, where limited funds, bad jobs, questionable meals, and impulsive decisions shape an uneven passage toward adulthood. The book uses travel not as a polished escape but as the setting for mishaps, embarrassment, newfound freedom, and encounters that expose the uncertainty behind searching for purpose. A Bastille Day injury and hospital visit are among the explicitly described episodes, while the broader account stays grounded in the practical and personal complications of moving through Europe with little money and plenty of inexperience.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in candid travel memoirs centered on Europe
  • Fans of comic personal essays about early-adulthood missteps
  • Those drawn to stories of budget travel, odd jobs, and travel mishaps

Themes

European travelEarly adulthoodFinancial constraintMishaps and embarrassmentSelf-discovery

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Book overview

"Shukert's sharp comic turns careen smack into the middle of our hearts."


-- Los Angeles Times

From performer, playwright, comedian, author and writer and producer of "Glow" and "Superirl" Rachel Shukert, Everything Is Going to Be Great, is a hilarious memoir of traveling through Europe in her twenties. Rachel chronicles her youthful navigation through the haphazard fun and debauchery of new freedoms, and the growing pains that ultimately accompany "adulthood." Fans of Sloane Crosley and David Sedaris are going to love Shulkert's story, and her sharp, smart humor.

 

One underfunded grand tour. A series of hilariously bad decisions.

 

  • Women's Humor: Written with the sharp, smart voice that would later define her work on shows like Glow and Supergirl.
  • Travel Misadventures: From a drunken Bastille Day celebration that ends with a broken nose in a Parisian hospital to a string of terrible jobs and even worse food.
  • Self-Deprecating Humor: A painfully funny and unflinchingly honest look at the humiliation and absurdity of navigating "adulthood" for the first time.
  • European Travelogue: Follow Rachel through Vienna, Amsterdam, and Zurich as she searches for purpose and finds mostly debauchery and awkward sexual encounters.
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