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**An instant New York Times bestseller**

From TikTok star and the author of I Didn’t Know I Needed This Eli Rallo, a reflection on the anxiety of transitioning into adulthood, navigating the quarter-life crisis, and realizing you’re actually not alone.

Does anyone else feel like they’re the only one having a quarter-life crisis? As a senior in college, Eli Rallo expected her post-grad years to be filled with certainty, that she would finally feel that she was the “adult” she had long dreamed she’d be, with a cool job, an amazing apartment, fabulous friends, and lots of fun and flirty date nights. Instead she was met with crippling social anxiety, no idea what direction her career was taking, an inability to stop comparing herself to her peers’ picture-perfect lives on social media, and a looming sense that she may never feel certain—about her dating life, friendships, career, or even herself.

With deep honesty, raw emotions, humor, and relatability, Eli analyzes life in your twenties with a candid and heartfelt approach, asking and answering questions like:

• How do you manage losing a best friend?
• How do you know who you are or what you want to do with your life?
• How do you find time and space for all of your priorities?
• How do you navigate the choppy waters of the social media world, and not fall victim to the comparison game?
• What happens when the timeline you made for yourself as a child is long in your past?
• How do you know you’re making the right decisions?

Even though early adulthood doesn’t look just like Sex and the City or Thirteen Going on Thirty the way Eli thought it would, with Does Anyone Else Feel This Way? Eli shows you that you’re not the only one who misses the days when they could swing by the dining hall or just wants to call their mom to make it all go away. With a look at her own misadventures and hard-won life lessons, Eli shares the journey she’s been on to find herself as an adult, and the twists and turns she’s taken while navigating her own quarter-life crisis.

About the Author

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Eli Rallo is the author of I Didn’t Know I Needed This and an internet creator with massive followings on TikTok and Instagram. She is the founder of Prose Hoes Literary Salon, the previous host of the Miss Congeniality podcast, and a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. When she isn’t writing or TikTok-ing, you can find her at piano bars in the Village belting out show tunes.

Praise For…

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“Does Anyone Else Feel This Way? showcases exactly how I felt when I got out of college, changing jobs and careers, learning how to be a responsible adult, and trying to figure out my purpose. It’s completely normal not to know what you’re doing, and this book lets you know you’re not alone in the wilderness.” - Vivian Tu, CEO and founder of Your Rich BFF and New York Times bestselling author of Rich AF
“Eli Rallo completely captures the messiness of being in your twenties, going from thinking you’re on top of the world only to discover that life is so much more complicated than it seemed when you were young. I loved this relatable, funny, and raw book.” - Gracie Gold, Olympic figure skater and New York Times bestselling author of Outofshapeworthlessloser
“As a theater girl on the millennial cusp, Eli Rallo is my addiction, and this book kept me hooked. Eli has a way of writing that makes me feel like I’m not alone in this bizarre era of culture we’re living through. Before reading this book, I felt like a weird, niche, twentysomething-year-old girl who didn’t know what I was doing. After reading it, I feel the same, but a lot more proud of my weirdness, and more at peace with not having all the answers.” - Dylan Mulvaney, New York Times bestselling author of Paper Doll