A gutsy, wise, punk rock memoir - essays from a writer praised as impossible to put down (People) Michelle Tea makes her major publishing debut with a boldly honest memoir about her stumbling journey toward the life of a Bonafide Grown-Up. As an aspiring young writer in San Francisco, Michelle lived in a scuzzy communal house; she drank, smoked, and snorted anything she got her hands on; she dated men and women and sometimes both at once; and she forged a literary career between hangovers and dead-end jobs. How did she get to become the mature, sober, thoughtful adult she is today? That's the essence of How to Grow Up. At once heartwarming, darkly comic, and unapologetically Michelle Tea, How to Grow Up is the book that will bring this incredibly talented writer the larger audience she deserves.