New York Times bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims is back with a groundbreakingly frank
guide to being a grown-up What does it mean to be an adult? In the twentieth century
psychologists came up with five markers of adulthood: finish your education get a job leave
home marry and have children. Since then every generation has been held to those same
markers. Yet so much has changed about the world and living in it since that sequence was
formulated. All of those markers are choices and they're all valid but any one person's
choices along those lines do not make them more or less an adult. A former Stanford dean of
freshmen and undergraduate advising and author of the perennial bestseller How to Raise an
Adult and of the lauded memoir Real American Julie Lythcott-Haims has encountered hundreds of
twentysomethings (and thirtysomethings too) who faced with those markers feel they're just
playing the part of adult while struggling with anxiety stress and general unease. In Your
Turn Julie offers compassion personal experience and practical strategies for living a more
authentic adulthood as well as inspiration through interviews with dozens of voices from the
rich diversity of the human population who have successfully launched their adult lives. Being
an adult it turns out is not about any particular checklist it is instead a process one
you can get progressively better at over time-becoming more comfortable with uncertainty and
gaining the knowhow to keep going. Once you begin to practice it being an adult becomes the
most complicated yet also the most abundantly rewarding and natural thing. And Julie
Lythcott-Haims is here to help readers take their turn.
