THINGS I CAN’T EXPLAIN

Book ID/图书代码： 02740015B78738

English Summary/英文概要： A complete re-imagining of Clarissa Explains it All as 20-something Clarissa tries to navigate the unemployment line, mompreneurs and the collision of two people in love.

She was a smart, snappy, light-hearted girl who knew it all at fourteen. Now a woman in her late twenties, her searching blue eyes are more serious, but mostly amused by the people around her. The gap-toothed smile that made her seem younger than she really was is gone, but she still lightens up the room. Her unpredictable wardrobe rocks just like when she was a kid, but her fashion sense has evolved and it makes men and women turn their heads.

After leaving high school early, Clarissa interned at the Daily Post while attending night school. At the ripe old age of twenty- two she had it made - her own journalism beat (fashion, gender politics and crime), an affordable apartment in FiDi and a livable wage. She was so totally ahead of the game. Ah, those were the days! All three of them. Remember the Stock Market Crash of 08? Remember when people actually bought newspapers?

All of Clarissa’s charming obsessions, charts, graphs, and superstitions have survived into adulthood, but they’ve evolved into an ever-greater need to claw the world back under control. Her mid-twenties crisis has left her with a whole set of things she can’t explain: an ex-boyfriend turned stalker, her parents’ divorce, a micro relationship with the cute coffee guy, java addiction, "To-Flue Glue," and then there’s Sam. Where’s Sam anyway?

Things I Can’t Explain is about knowing it all in your teens and then feeling like you know nothing in your twenties.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Clarissa Marie Darling 在十四岁时，似乎对一切都能理解，现在身在纽约城二十五岁的她，对很多事物，都无法去解释，像微妙的人际关系，失业，和同时陷入爱河的两个男人之间的擦出的火花。然后就是Sam的出现，这场情感的去向该往哪里？ (Sandy)

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About the Author/作者介绍： MITCHELL KRIEGMAN has published in The New Yorker, Los Angeles Review of Books, The National Lampoon, and Glamour among others. Winner of four Emmy Awards and the Director’s Guild Award, Kriegman created the groundbreaking television series Clarissa Explains It All. He was also the executive story editor on Ren and Stimpy, Rugrats, and Doug as well as a writer and filmmaker for Saturday Night Live. His first novel Being Audrey Hepburn was published in September 2014.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK rights available

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