This Is Not How I Thought It Would Be

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She thought she'd have it figured out by now-career relationships identity purpose. </strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Instead she had a PhD in behavioral science a brain full of spirals and a growing suspicion that the story she'd been telling herself about how life should look was way off script.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In her hilarious and deeply honest debut memoir Sarah Watters explores </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>what happens when your 30s don't go to plan</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-and how the sticky stories we cling to about success love and self-worth can quietly run the show.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This Is Not How I Thought It Would Be</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a sharp self-aware look at identity change and what it takes to rewrite the narrative when it no longer fits.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If you've ever thought </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is not how I thought it would be</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-you're in the right place.</span></p>