{"product_id":"crushmore-essays-on-love-loss-and-coming-of-age","title":"Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss, and Coming-Of-Age","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIn the debut essay collection from the hosts of the hit podcast \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePodcrushed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari, and Nava Kavelin explore what it means to come of age at every stage of our lives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKnown for spotlighting your favorite artists’ tween stories of self-discovery on their podcast, Penn, Sophie, and Nava turn inward to share their own experiences for the first time. Penn, a twelve-year-old, Discman-toting introvert, starts in the solitude of his only-child household where he danced like no one was watching (because no one was watching) before embarking on a neon-lit journey to Hollywood. Sophie takes us to her middle school in Beijing where she had to ward off rumors of a boob job, and to the moment loosening her chokehold on love brought her husband straight into her living room. Nava traces the emotional aftershocks of losing her mother and guides us through the whimsical world of an \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eimaginationship\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, where nothing is ever as it seems. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith compassion, humor, and insight, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCrushmore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e charts the often cringey, sometimes luminous path from adolescence to adulthood. Together, these essays remind us that we can find healing—and even inspiration—from our awkward adolescent selves long after we thought we left them behind.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gallery Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50214278070557,"sku":"9781668077993","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781668077993.jpg?v=1754063378","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/crushmore-essays-on-love-loss-and-coming-of-age","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}