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How To Be A Person In The World: Ask Polly's Guide Through The Paradoxes Of Modern Life

by Heather Havrilesky

NPR Books We Love · Recommendation

How To Be A Person In The World: Ask Polly's Guide Through The Paradoxes Of Modern Life by Heather Havrilesky appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, funny stuff, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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