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GRADUATES IN WONDERLAND
Rachel Kapelke-Dale Jessica Pan
The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults
GRADUATES IN WONDERLAND is a hilarious, relatable, and honest epistolary memoir told in alternating emails between two college best friend as they navigate adulthood.
Jessica Pan and Rachel Kapelke-Dale’s epistolary memoir tells the story of their first five years post-college as they span the globe between New York, Beijing, Paris, and Melbourne, Australia.
Fast friends since their first year at Brown University in 2003, Jess and Rachel resolved to keep in touch weekly through in-depth—and brutally honest—emails about their lives as they graduated and prepared to move across the world from each other. At once aspirational and relatable, Graduates in Wonderland provides an unflinching portrait of what growing up looks like today through Rachel and Jess’s wry, self-aware, and sometimes painfully earnest first-person voices.
Our heroines’ paths showcase two extremes of post-collegiate life: Rachel moves to New York and starts paying dues at the bottom of the employment ladder, while Jess explores the world, searching for love and success without knowing how to find it. Continents apart, Jess and Rachel tackle their entry into the real world together, sharing their successes, their stumbles, and their hopes and fears for the future. They swap tales of out-of-control bosses and cringe-worthy details of dating misadventures, along with the hard stuff they faced after college, from car accidents and taxes to break-ups and break-downs.
Over the course of their irreverent, hilarious, yet deeply genuine emails, Jess and Rachel share an inside glimpse of intimate conversation between two best friends as they come-of-age and grow into the women they are meant to become.
Jessica Pan has a BA in Psychology and Literary Arts from Brown University. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She was the editor of a magazine and a TV reporter in Beijing and has written for The Hairpin and The Toast.
Rachel Kapelke-Dale is pursuing a PhD in cinematographic studies at University College London. She has a BA in History of Art and Architecture and Comparative Literature from Brown University and a master’s in Cinema Studies from the Université de Paris VII.
Both authors live in London.
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Published 2014-05-01 by Gotham |