Adam Mansbach’s profane, #1 New York Times Best-Selling Series Is All Grown Up And Off To College, At Least He Hopes So...About this Event
Join us on Saturday May 23 when local best-selling author Adam Mansbach comes to Mrs. Dalloway's to share his latest book Go The Fuck To College. Adam will be joined in conversation by Peggy Orenstein and will sign copies of his book after the presentation.
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This laugh-out-loud, latest installment in Adam Mansbach’s profane, #1 New York Times best-selling series, probably CAN be read to—and by—your graduating child, though it might bring you all to tears
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, humor, 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 senior—or their parents or grandparents—this 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.
ADAM MANSBACH is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep, as well as the novels Rage is Back, The End of the Jews (winner of the California Book Award), Angry Black White Boy, the national bestseller The Golem of Brooklyn, and the memoir-in-verse I Had a Brother Once. With Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel, he co-authored For This We Left Egypt? and the bestselling A Field Guide to the Jewish People, and his books for young readers include the instant New York Times bestseller Just Try One Bite and the award-winning Jake the Fake series, co-written with Craig Robinson. Mansbach is also the founder of the 1990s hip hop journal Elementary. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Believer, The Guardian, and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, The Moth Storytelling Hour, and This American Life.
PEGGY ORENSTEIN is the New York Times bestselling author of, among other books, Boys & Sex, Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and the memoirs Unraveling and Waiting for Daisy. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, Peggy has also written for such publications as The Washington Post, The Atlantic, New York, and The New Yorker and has contributed commentaries to NPR's All Things Considered and the PBS Newshour. Her new book, It's MORE Complicated will be released in early 2027.
THIS EVENT is free but registration is requested. Registration ends at 6:30 pm on May 23.
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Event Venue
Mrs Dalloway's, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, United States
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