Hindsight 20/Something: Personal stories from twenty-somethings on transition, failure, and stumbling through the quarter life crisis.

By Austin Beaton

Being 23 is always crazy. But being 23 right now? It can feel like living an inch under the apocalypse. This is a response to that conversation young 20somethings keep having at happy hour, over FaceTime, alone in their brain: I don't know what I'm doing. It's all so crazy. My job's fine, I guess. I want to move. I want a different life, but I'm not sure how to change it and even if I could, to what?Hindsight 20/Something is a chronicle of quarter-life crises--stories of moving to the midwest and losing a lover, losing your mind and changing your pronouns, renting a house with a urinal in the living room, coming out, moving back in with your parents. It's a book-shaped living room of honest friends--two nurses, an architect, a med student, two poets, a teacher, a software engineer, the depressed, the wandering, the anxious--all in their 20s. All here telling you that it's probably not okay right now. And that's okay. Austin Beaton is a poet essayist twenty-something who studied regret at the University of Oregon, where he was a finalist for the Walter and Nancy Kidd Memorial Writing Competition in Poetry. His work has appeared in Boston Accent, Porridge Magazine, Angel City Review and elsewhere. He lives near the Pacific Ocean and gives nicknames.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1729478867
• ISBN13: 9781729478868
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.5" x 5.1"