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Two best friends document their post-college lives in a hilarious, relatable, and powerfully honest epistolary memoir. Fast friends since they met at Brown University during their freshman year, Jessica Pan and Rachel Kapelke-Dale vowed to keep in touch after their senior year through in-depth - and brutally honest - weekly e-mails. After graduation, Jess packs up everything she owns and moves to Beijing on a whim, while Rachel heads to New York to work for an art gallery and to figure out her love life. Each spends the next few years tumbling through adulthood and reinventing themselves in various countries, including France, China, and Australia. Through their messages from around the world, they swap tales of teaching classes of military men, running a magazine, and flirting in foreign languages, along with the hard stuff: from harrowing accidents to breakups and breakdowns.
About the Author
Jessica Pan is a features writer and has appeared in the Guardian Weekend Magazine, The Cut (New York Magazine) , Lenny Letter, Jezebel, ELLE, Refinery29, The Toast, The Hairpin, the Daily Telegraph and is a regular contributor to Broadly (VICE) . She has a BA in Psychology and Literary Arts from Brown University and a Masters in Journalism from RMIT. Jessica co-authored Graduates in Wonderland, a memoir about living in Beijing and Paris, which was published by Penguin in the US in 2014.Her second book, SORRY I'M LATE, I DIDN'T WANT TO COME is out in May 2019.She previously worked as a TV reporter and magazine editor in Beijing and now lives in London.
