A review by annabcarey
It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths about Life in Your Twenties by Emily Franklin

2.0

The first couple of sections were great, but the ones on love and friendship got really upsetting. Some of the essays were just miserably heteronormative and very hard to relate to, as someone whose romantic life and friendships have always been non-standard. Frequent references to the sorts of people who you just don't consider partners (almost never based on personality), or "every girl needs a gay guy friend," or "men and women can't relate without men wanting sex," or...any number of things that we just desperately need to get over as a society. Not to mention several instances of the writers using "that's retarded," which is absolutely not ok with me.

If the second half of the book had been what the first half was, I'd have probably given this a four, but the later essays just ruined it for me.