num_pages: 192
description: Sooner or later, each of us must face the day we develop a disturbing new interest in lawn care; the day we order sauvignon blanc instead of Rolling Rock; the day we refuse to see any concert where we cannot sit down. Sooner or later, each of us must face the day we turn uncool.Dan Zevin, who “was never exactly Fonz-like to begin with,” is having a hilariously hard time moving from his twenties to his thirties, and he confesses everything in these comic not-coming-of-age tales. As he shamefully employs his first cleaning lady, becomes abnormally attached to his dog, and commits flagrant acts of home improvement, Dan’s headed for an early midlife crisis—and a better-late-than-never Growing up is really nothing to be reluctant about. In fact, it’s very cool.
language: English
title: The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up
titlecomplete: The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up
genres: Biography, Memoir, Essays, Biography Memoir, Humor, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 463
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Thurber Prize
category: American Humor
publisher: Villard