These books pin those adult moments

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There are so many adult stories out there that children lose their innocent years… When teenagers reach puberty and spend their time in painful embarrassment, it ends up becoming a tiny version of what they will become adults. But what are those adult stories? In college, did we try to develop a sense of self with the feeling of self we grew up with? Could the next big decision we made early in those years, when we floated aimlessly, set the lessons for the rest of our lives?

In those years, we entered true independence, and how many years did we shape us into what we ended up being people?

When I was in my 20s, just working from my college, collecting unemployment checks and distributing samples on Dunkin’ Donuts, I remember I must have thought I would have gone through the thing I read: a quarter of life crisis. I have dreams, but can’t tell if they work. Back in my childhood bedroom, I didn’t beat the task of becoming an adult. It seems like I am in a state of being arrested and developed.

I ended up passing this career…a family…a home. But this feeling of uncertainty will never disappear. I wonder if I will always be in a crisis of a quarter of life. Then I wonder if I’m having a midlife crisis. Eventually, I realized that my whole life was a crisis.

Upcoming title Three cousins The struggle written by Jessica Levine is slightly different. During the peak of the second wave of feminism, the story of three cousins ​​sharing an apartment at Yale University, it explores the different ways each woman has with the new freedom they offer. The 1976 place this adult story on the new perspective of that era is almost unhappy with the feelings many of us experience today. In the 1970s, it seemed impossible. Now, there is a sense of purposelessness in the danger that many of us have acquired the rights that may slip away. uncertain. despair.

I have seen it in many literary novels I read. Young people drift in their lives, make bad decisions and want to know if there is a better offer in their future.

I want to shake them. But I understand, too.

Interested in reading more adult stories? The following list approaches the time of life in many different ways.

Three cousins ​​of Jessica Levine

I will start with Levine’s book because it’s a book that inspired this article. As I mentioned above, it follows three cousins ​​who share a room at Yale, flush with their new independent state, resolving what freedom means to them. Although she found herself attracted to others, she continued to maintain a monogamous relationship security. Another seems to be a means of escaping from a life that feels too small. Finally, this cultural moment provides opportunities to explore her sexuality. Of course, their long-term friendship is shaken by the core by different interpretations of how freedom looks to them. Consider what freedom means: this is what it means 50 years ago and what it means to us today.

Daphne Palasi andreades brown girl

This amazing book, written in the first person plural, is built around a chorus of Greek brown girls who grew up in Queens, New York. although Brown girl It is indeed from their childhood that it ends up in all kinds of adulthood, exploring friendships, ambitions, loyalty and so on, except for the ways in which they inevitably disagree. However, the biggest driving question that drives the book most is what it means to be a brown girl struggling to find her way in the world.

John Allison, Max Sarin and Lissa Treiman

Adult adult stories are often associated with stories of complex friendships. There are friends we left behind. Even if we can see that we are separated, we are desperately working hard to stick with our friends. The new friends entering our lives at this point almost like a mirror, helping us figure out who we might be. exist Huge daysThis is a long-running comic series where we follow three very different women who meet in college and become fast friends. In four years, they entered the usual college years of Higgins. They reshaped themselves. Gain a sense of independence. Find out who they are. Survive away from home. Having each other is what keeps them on track.

Gina Chung’s Ocean Changes

In the clock Sea changeWe follow Ro, 30, and the people in her life seem to move and grow, she feels cold. Her boyfriend asked her to join the mission to Mars. Her best friend is about to get married and thrives at work, and he is getting farther and farther away. Meanwhile, Ro has been working in the aquarium because the feeling always feels like eternity and spends the night drinking. Feeling increasingly isolated, she was not doing well when she spent her whole life being bought by outside investors, and she was in the aquarium all her life. At this point, she can drown the stagnation and find ways to move forward. The atmosphere here represents the ignition type of buzzing sounds that are now in their twenties and thirties.

Mimosa by Sil Bongiovanni

Very similar Sea changethis graphic novel drives the transition from adulthood to the 30s, which seems to be a time when so many people delay marriage and children and settle down to follow their passions and build careers. Mimosa There are queer people in their forties spinning, tired of “the oldest gay guy at the party.” They decided to launch a new queer campaign called Grind, a project that allows each of them to avoid thinking about their real problems, ranging from messy divorces and single mothers to inappropriate workplace relationships and dirty secrets. The four of them have been getting along with each other, but because it became more difficult to ignore their problems, and even more difficult to support each other, they found that it was unthinkable: they grew up. But friendship cannot always last forever, especially as we grow and change.

Your driver is waiting for Priya Guns

The voice of the main protagonist Your driver is waiting– A chaotic ride sharing driver living salary to pay for salary-I fell in love with me from the first page. In this social irony, everyone is fighting for change on behalf of Damani, a queer Tamil immigrant from Sri Lanka. But Damani just wants to survive. Maybe finding love along the way…even if the woman she sees is a bunch of dangerous red flags. Can she keep moving forward in this way, insisting on making dubious decisions in the gig economy, never changing, growing or moving forward? Or is her friend convinced her to fight for something better?

Holly Brickley’s Depth Cut

A reviewer described the book as High fidelity and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrowit turns out to be a beautiful place. exist deepmusically snobbish Percy Marks ended up talking to songwriter/musicist Joe Morrow, which triggered a lifelong collaboration, which proved complicated, especially when it went against their feelings to each other and with Percy’s own dream of becoming a songwriter with his own dream. How many people did Percy spend on Joe’s shadow before we can stand up confidently?

Which of the adult stories do you most involve? (I feel Huge days and deep…) Is there another book that will get your experience more perfectly? What does adult freedom mean to you? Is adulthood completely representing freedom?