Uneducated: A Memoir of Flunking Out, Falling Apart, and Finding My Worth -- Christopher Zara, Hardcover

In this "hilarious and heartbreaking...must-read memoir" (Publishers Weekly), Christopher Zara breaks down his winding journey from dropout to journalist and the impact that his background had in the world of privilege.

Boldly honest, wryly funny, and utterly open-hearted, Uneducated is one diploma-less journalist's map of our growing educational divide and, ultimately, a challenge: in our credential-obsessed world, what is the true value of a college degree?

For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for behavioral problems and never allowed back. From a school for "troubled kids," to wrestling with his identity in the burgeoning punk scene of the 1980s; from a stint as an ice cream scooper as he got clean in Florida, to an unpaid internship in New York in his thirties, Zara spent years contending with skeptical hiring managers and his own impostor syndrome before breaking into the world of journalism--only to be met by an industry preoccupied with pedigree. As he navigated the world of the elite and saw the realities of the education gap firsthand, Zara realized he needed to confront the label he had been quietly holding in: what it looked like to be part of the "working class"--whatever that meant.

Author: Christopher Zara
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 05/16/2023
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780316268974

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2022 pg. 20
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 03/27/2023
Booklist 05/01/2023 pg. 7

About the Author
Christopher Zara is an author and journalist who writes about culture, media, business, and technology. He is a senior editor at Fast Company, where he runs the news desk, and was previously a deputy editor at International Business Times, a theater critic for Newsweek, and managing editor of Show Business Weekly. Christopher lives on the Upper West Side with his wife, Christina D'Angelo, and their cat, Jimmy Carter McPickles, who is officially on the lease.