Julia Wertz

Presents a reflection on early adulthood in which the author moves from San Francisco to Brooklyn at the height of Obama's election frenzy and endures a series of minimum-wage jobs, local competitiveness, and problems back home.

All her life, Eden Sher has suffered from dyscommunicatia (n. the inability to articulate a feeling through words.). Then, one day, she decided that, whenever she had an emotion for which she had no word, she would make one up. The result of this is The Emotionary, which lives at the intersection of incredibly funny and very useful. Chock full of words you always wanted/never knew you needed, often accompanied by illustrations of hilarious and all-too-familiar...