Choose Your Own Disaster

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A "hilarious and heartbreaking" memoir about one young woman's life-changing decisions while hoping—and sometimes failing—to find herself ( J o Piazza , bestselling author of The Knockoff and Fitness Junkie ).

Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the awful choices she made in her early twenties through the internet's favorite method of self-knowledge: the quiz. Part-memoir, part-VERY long personality test, Choose Your Own Disaster is a manifesto about the millennial experience and modern feminism and how the easy advice of "you can be anything you want!" is actually pretty difficult when there are so many possible versions of yourself it seems like you could be.

Dana has no idea who she is, but at least she knows she's a Carrie, a Ravenclaw, a Raphael, a Belle, a former emo kid, a Twitter addict, and a millennial just trying her best.

"This long-form personality quiz manages to combine humor with unflinching honesty as one young woman tries to find herself amid the many, many choices that your twenties have to offer." — Bustle

"Dana's disasters will entertain you, but it's her endearingly honest and unflinching perspective that will keep you turning the page. —Erin Chack, author of This Is Really Happening

"Reading Choose Your Own Disaster feels like a hilarious night out with your best friend." — Hannah Orenstein, author of Playing with Matches

"Equal parts amusing and cringe-worthy, these stories will have millennial readers relating and older ones nodding, 'Yes. I've made similar mistakes." — Library Journal

"Such a fun ride." — PopSugar

"A salted caramel of a memoir. Her travails as an early twenty-something aspiring writer/rom-com character are the perfect mixture of salty and sweet." — The Washington Post

A "hilarious and heartbreaking" memoir about one young woman's life-changing decisions while hoping—and sometimes failing—to find herself ( J o Piazza , bestselling author of The Knockoff and Fitness Junkie ). Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the awful choices she made in her ea...

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About the author

Dana Schwartz is an arts and culture writer based in Los Angeles with writing for the New Yorker, the Guardian, New York Observer, Marie Claire, Glamour, Mic, GQ, VICE, and more. She is currently a staff writer for Entertainment Weekly. She created a parody Twitter account called @GuyInYourMFA based on the people she's encountered in fiction workshops, and another one called @DystopianYA about the tropes in all of the young adult fiction books she's read. Her own (non-dystopian) YA book, And We're Off, was published May 2017 by Penguin/Razorbil.
Dana Schwartz is an arts and culture writer based in Los Angeles with writing for the New Yorker, the Guardian, New York Observer, Marie Claire, Glamour, Mic, GQ, VICE, and more. She is currently a staff writer for Entertainment Weekly. She created a parody Twitter account called @GuyInYourMFA ba...

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