About the Book

 

Page count: 207

Publisher: New Degree Press (April 27, 2021)

Publication date: April 27, 2021

Language: English

 

 

Deeply funny, exceptionally honest, and furiously relatable, Small Legs, Big Teeth: A Prequel of Something Yet to Come shamelessly exposes the nitty-gritty madness that is growing up. Kelly Wiesehan offers us raw, unedited excerpts from the diaries she kept from ages twelve to twenty-two.

Small Legs, Big Teeth is a coming-of-age memoir that happens in real time. Wiesehan pulls back the curtain on the realities of navigating female friendships, reconciling the demise of a long-term relationship, realizing that not everyone in the world is Irish, Catholic, and celibate, unpacking profound conversations in college that burst her tiny childhood bubble, surviving a summer–and a few identity crises–in New York City, and fleeing Europe in the middle of the night during a pandemic. “Totally worth it,” she says. 

Whoever said that you had to be forty-five with a seasoned career and a few divorces under your belt to write a memoir was clearly wrong. Jam-packed with fresh lessons from a 22-year-old, this book will leave you feeling courageous enough to call out your own quirks and tackle your own evolution with a playful and candid self-awareness.