Awake Beautiful Child by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

“…a groundbreaking new twist on the traditional literary experience… Textbook is a delightful collection of interesting scenarios that directly point to life lessons.

Not exactly a memoir, not just a collection of observations, Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal is a beautiful exploration into the many ways we are connected on this planet and speaks to the awe, bewilderment, and poignancy of being alive. Like she did with Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Amy Krouse Rosenthal ingeniously adapts a standard format-a textbook, this time-to explore life’s lessons and experiences into a funny, wise, and poignant work of art. It is a mighty, life-affirming work that sheds light on all the ordinary and extraordinary ways we are connected. Ten years after her beloved, groundbreaking Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, #1 New York Times bestselling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal delivers a book full of her distinct blend of nonlinear narrative, wistful reflections, and insightful wit. The bestselling author of Encyclopedia an Ordinary Life returns with a literary experience that is unprecedented, unforgettable, and explosively human. An ordinary life, perhaps, but an extraordinary book.

Start anywhere-preferably at the beginning-and see how one young woman’s alphabetized existence can open up and define the world in new and unexpected ways.

Using mostly short entries organized from A to Z, many of which are cross-referenced, Rosenthal captures in wonderful and episodic detail the moments, observations, and emotions that comprise a contemporary life. In Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life she has ingeniously adapted this centuries-old format for conveying knowledge into a poignant, wise, often funny, fully realized memoir. A memoir in bite-size chunks from the author of the viral Modern Love column “You May Want to Marry My Husband.” “ shines her generous light of humanity on the seemingly humdrum moments of life and shows how delightfully precious they actually are.” -The Chicago Sun-Times How do you conjure a life? Give the truest account of what you saw, felt, learned, loved, strived for? For Amy Krouse Rosenthal, the surprising answer came in the form of an encyclopedia.

Awake Beautiful Child by Amy Krouse Rosenthal