Jeneration X : one reluctant adult's attempt to unarrest her arrested development, or, Why it's never too late for her dumb ass to learn why Froot Loops are not for dinner / Jen Lancaster.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : New American Library, c2012.Description: viii, 352 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0451233174 (hbk.)
- 9780451233172 (hbk.)
- Generation X
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Biography | Lancaste J. L244 | Available | 33111006737585 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In Such a Pretty Fat , Jen Lancaster learned how to come to terms with her body. In My Fair Lazy , she expanded her mind. Now the New York Times bestselling author gives herself--and her generation--a kick in the X, by facing her greatest challenge to date: acting her age.
Jen is finally ready to put away childish things (except her Barbie Styling Head, of course) and embrace the investment-making, mortgage-carrying, life-insurance-having adult she's become. From getting a mammogram to volunteering at a halfway house, she tackles the grown-up activities she's resisted for years, and with each rite of passage she completes, she'll uncover a valuable--and probably humiliating--life lesson that will ease her path to full-fledged, if reluctant, adulthood.
"A memoir"--Jacket.
Involuntarily voluntary -- The evolution of a bad idea -- Flipping the script -- Lucky nineteen -- The queen of kings -- Get off my lawn -- Generation Y don't you do it for me? -- A Barbie Girl in a Barbie world -- I wish I could quit you, Gladys Kravitz -- The old dog whisperer -- Don't blame mii, Japan -- As seen on TV -- Role models -- Peer pressure -- How do you talk to girls -- Ring of fire -- Bond, Jen Bond -- The one about the monkey -- It's not like Texas didn't warn you -- Quickbooks, quicker shovels -- I know why you fly -- That's the night that the lights went out (in Lake County) -- The five stages of grief -- Generator X -- When bad things happen to bad people -- Death and taxes? Can I select neither? -- Distinguish myself.
The author attempts to act her age by trying her hand at investment-making, getting a mortgage, and obtaining life insurance, and describes the humorous results.