Your 20s can feel like the best of times and also the worst. Book Critic Constance Grady offers a few reads to help navigate through the murky existential waters of starting a career or finding a new purpose.<ul>
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Wild by Cheryl Strayed</li>
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Losing It Emma Rathbone</li>
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<a href="https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=66960X1516588&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https://bookshop.org/books/florence-in-ecstasy/9781944700171&amp;referrer=vox.com&amp;sref=https://www.vox.com/culture/22291373/ask-a-book-critic-quarterlife-crisis-losing-it-emma-rathbone-wild-cheryl-strayed-florence-in-ecstasy&amp;xcust=___vx__p_22055414__t_w__d_D">Florence in Ecstasy</a> by Jessie Chaffee. </li>
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