{"product_id":"9780062429513","title":"Post Grad : Five Women and Their First Year Out of College","description":"\u003cstrong\u003ePost Grad\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Caroline Kitchener\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Intimate, compulsively readable and even occasionally shocking.” —\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The creativity and courage at the foundation of these stories is worth a thousand hours of counseling in any college career office.” — Melissa Harris-Perry, author of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSister Citizen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn honest and deeply reported account of five women and the opportunities and frustrations they face in the year following their graduation from an elite university\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen she graduated from Princeton in the spring of 2014, Caroline Kitchener began shadowing four of her female classmates, interviewing them as they started to navigate the murky waters of post-collegiate life. Weaving together her own experience as a writer with that of these other women— a documentarian, a singer, a programmer, and an aspiring doctor—Kitchener delves deeply into what is offered to a female college graduate, and how the world perceives them. The five confront challenges ranging from parental estrangement to mental illness, financial anxiety and heartbreak, all the while tackling their nascent careers and forging their own paths forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting with the fervor of a journalist, the rigor of a sociologist, and the nuance and empathy of a skilled memoirist, Kitchener has crafted a brilliant work of reportage replete with vibrant, human characters. Both a broad and an intensely individual exploration, Post Grad is an account of the generation people can’t stop talking about, from one of its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Kitchener, herself a recent Princeton graduate, wants to be a writer — and she has done it.\u003cem\u003e In Post Grad\u003c\/em\u003e, along with detailing her own struggles, she burrows deep into the lives and psyches of four classmates. Her nonfiction narrative is intimate, compulsively readable and even occasionally shocking.”\u003cbr\u003e“Kitchener’s book...offer[s] n absorbing and introspective look at the challenges facing young women today as they attempt to find their footing on their own individual paths.”\u003cbr\u003e“And she is, without question, a talented writer. I read Post Grad in a single sitting . . . An engaging book.”\u003cbr\u003e“These women [in Post Grad] defiantly contradict stereotypes, and Caroline does not reduce them to tokens. Post Grad reveals the complicated, painful, funny, messy, sometimes shocking, and entirely human journeys of young women with extraordinary educations.”\u003cbr\u003e“Carefully reported, empathetic.”\u003cbr\u003e“With a strong command of narrative...Kitchener excels at sprinkling the multiple story lines with statistics to add clarity and insight to a truly challenging stage of life. Her book is highly recommended for recent grads stumbling through their newfound independence.”\u003cbr\u003e“With candor, the author discusses how she and her high-achieving, competitive cohorts adapted to life after the Ivy League, from navigating changing familial bonds to forging new romantic relationships to considering-and reconsidering-career options. As a Millennial...I found it engrossing and (at times a bit too) relatable.”\u003cbr\u003e“Caroline Kitchener’s Post Grad is a book I wish had been published when I graduated from college and was floundering my way through my first year in the ‘real world.’”\u003cbr\u003e“A must-read book for April.”\u003cbr\u003e“Kitchener has the unique ability of being able to verbalize my every thought, feeling, and emotion regarding the experience of joining the ‘real world.’”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780062429513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41089158086862,"sku":"9780062429513","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780062429513.jpg?v=1649043896","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780062429513","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}