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Description
A fun, hilarious, and fully illustrated guide to your thirties, celebrating the flailing, failing, and figuring out.
-This is the perfect gift for anyone leaving their twenties, turning 30 or 35, or simply learning to navigate adulthood. Think: The Care and Keeping of You for your thirties.
-Ariella Elovic's delightful, vibrant illustrations make this a great coffee table book (even if you don't own a coffee table yet!)
-Chapters cover all the most important areas of life--from home to career, through family and love
Your thirties are a decade of major milestones and surprising setbacks. Do you sometimes wake up and wonder if your true adult life is just across the country? If you'll ever have the confidence to roast a whole chicken for a dinner party atop a fully accessorized dining table?
Thirty-four-year-old illustrator and author Ariella Elovic has spent the last four years investigating (and being plagued by) these questions, and she writes with a revelation: The truth is, thirty (and adulthood) isn't about finally feeling settled. It's about understanding that life is in the in-between.
In these pages, Ariella presents an array of disorienting, thrilling, disappointing, funny, and grounding experiences, offering ways she's been able to find “richness in the flailing.” Despite all that we've been told, our thirties are actually made more valuable by not having everything figured out.
"I am obsessed with Ariella Elovic . . . She is a gem, a light in the darkness, and a balm for the weary soul." --Samantha Irby, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wow, No Thank You
Product details
| Published | 31 Mar 2027 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781639737635 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Illustrations | 4-color illustrations throughout |
| Dimensions | Not specified |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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I am obsessed with Ariella Elovic . . . She is a gem, a light in the darkness, and a balm for the weary soul.
Samantha Irby, #1 New York Times bestselling author of WOW, NO THANK YOU
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Thirty feels like reading a more beautiful version of your own diary. I found in equal measure: laughs and affirmation of my own hellish life choices. It has the brilliant mix of humor and thoughtful truths that make Ariella's writing like no other. Thirty and its illustrations on dating, working, food, and the pressures of having it all are the perfect reminder that through a lens like Ariella's my life can feel like art too.
Aidy Bryant, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE alum and cocreator of SHRILL
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Teeming with exquisite details, hilarious insights, and pure wisdom, Thirty should be required reading for every person entering this magnanimous decade. Page by page, Ariella illustrates that there's no way to hack this whole growing up thing. You just have to go through it. (Hopefully with this book at your side.) It's a gorgeous adventure, charting every subject I've grappled with since completing my Saturn return. Bottom line: I'm obsessed with this book.
Olivia de Recat, New Yorker contributor and author of DRAWN TOGETHER
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I wish I had this book . . . in my 20s or 30s . . . Candid and hilarious . . . and beautiful enough to leave out on your coffee table for your guests to peruse during their holiday visits.
Ms. Magazine on CHEEKY
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This colorful graphic memoir . . . celebrates [Elovic's] body in all its perfectly imperfect glory, inspiring readers to embrace their own.
USA Today on CHEEKY
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Elovic takes the reader on a journey toward self-acceptance. We've just begun and already want to share it with a friend.
Goop on CHEEKY

























