num_pages: 200
description: In these insightful compassionate gutsy and heartbreaking personal essays Stielstra whose essay Channel B was recently featured in Best American Essays 2013 edited by Cheryl Strayed explores the messy maddening beauty of adulthood with wit intelligence and biting humor.The essays in Once I Was Cool tackle topics ranging from beating postpartum depression by stalking her neighbor to a surprise run-in with an old lover while on ecstasy to blowing her mortgage on a condo she bought because of Jane's Addiction. Or said another way they tackle life in all of its quotidian richness.
language: English
title: Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays
publisher: Curbside Splendor Publishing