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I'll Tell You in Person
by Chloé Caldwell
Chloe Caldwell's new essay collection is perfect. The essays range from hilarious to dark, but what I mostly love is her celebration of friendship. Throughout the collection, she introduces a wide variety of friends, and paints them all in such a loving, detailed way. The platonic guy friend who practically becomes a brother in her teens, the co-worker she finds ridiculous ways to slack off with in her early 20s, the older artist she finds a kinship with in her early 30s.
This was truly the perfect book to start on my 30th birthday. It made me so immensely grateful for a decade of misadventure, excited for the future, and ready to pull treasured friends closer.
"Then you experience the second half of your twenties. Your hair grows long or you chop it short. You learn how to cook rice properly (pretty much). You let your belly button ring fall out and the hole closes up. You fall in love with a woman. You make kale chips. One friend has a heart attack and another has a baby. You move into an apartment with a bathtub and trees outside your bedroom window. You find cocaine disgusting and nothing will go up your nose again. Cigarette smoking makes you want to die. You talk about what you learned in therapy and you go to bed before 11pm each night. You learn to say no, instead of defaulting to yes."
This was truly the perfect book to start on my 30th birthday. It made me so immensely grateful for a decade of misadventure, excited for the future, and ready to pull treasured friends closer.
"Then you experience the second half of your twenties. Your hair grows long or you chop it short. You learn how to cook rice properly (pretty much). You let your belly button ring fall out and the hole closes up. You fall in love with a woman. You make kale chips. One friend has a heart attack and another has a baby. You move into an apartment with a bathtub and trees outside your bedroom window. You find cocaine disgusting and nothing will go up your nose again. Cigarette smoking makes you want to die. You talk about what you learned in therapy and you go to bed before 11pm each night. You learn to say no, instead of defaulting to yes."