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Go The Fuck To College
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When your kid is little, the paradoxes of parenting are simple: you can love your child to death, and also be willing to do anything to get them to go the fuck to sleep. But by the time your precious little baby bird is getting ready...
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When your kid is little, the paradoxes of parenting are simple: you can love your child to death, and also be willing to do anything to get them to go the fuck to sleep.
But by the time your precious little baby bird is getting ready to spread its wings and leave the nest? That's a whole different level of complexity. You're happy and sad. Thrilled and devastated. You want to give them all the advice you can, but you know they've got to make their own mistakes. You want them to know they can always come home, but also you're turning their bedroom into a gym.
With Adam Mansbach's trademark honesty, humour, and profanity, Go the Fuck to College perfectly captures the complicated emotional reality of this poignant, fraught, exciting time. A perfect gift for any graduating seniorβor their parents or grandparentsβthis book somehow encapsulates everything you'd ever want to tell your kid... along with a few things you'd never dream of saying out loud.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781636142920
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 05 May 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: Akashic Books,U.S.
Illustration: 1 Illustrations
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Owen Brozman
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 216.0mm
Height: 164.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 28
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About the Author
Adam Mansbach is a novelist, screenwriter, humorist, and cultural critic (in addition to having built an obscene fake children's book empire). His books include Rage Is Back, the California Book Award-winning The End of the Jews, and the best sellers Angry Black White Boy and For This We Left Egypt?, cowritten with Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. Mansbach was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his screenplay for the Netflix Original Barry, and is currently adapting his middle-grade novel Jake the Fake Keeps It Real for the Disney Channel. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and on National Public Radio's This American Life, the Moth, and All Things Considered. Owen Brozman is the illustrator of the New York Times bestseller You Have to Fucking Eat, Kindness & Salt, Fuck, Now There Are Two of You, and the acclaimed graphic novel Nature of the Beast. He has illustrated for National Geographic, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York, Ninja Tune, Scholastic, and numerous other clients. His work has been recognized by 3x3 magazine, the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, Creative Quarterly, and many more. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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