Barely Functional Adult

Barely Functional Adult - Meichi Ng

5/5 ⭐

Every person aged 18 and on, should read this book. Any person who's ever questioned where they were in their life, what they were going to do, or what they wanted to do with their life should read this book.

A wonderful collection of heart-touching and breakthrough-inducing short stories with quirky, clever comics mixed in.

Meichi Ng presents all the conundrums that are present in so many of our lives. It's a sort of comfort seeing it from someone else's perspective, that you're not alone in feeling a certain way or having a similar experience.

I managed to read this beauty in its entirety in one sitting, I devoured it. Had multiple breakthroughs about certain things I had been struggling with and then proceeded to force a copy on everyone I was working with that night.

If you have an opportunity to read this one, I highly highly recommend you pick it up. The break up of the text with the comics plus photos in certain stories makes it feel manageable in a day and age where all of our time is so valuable and so scarce.

5/20/21

*This review was previously published on my Google Site.

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