First published 2017
Connor Franta achieved YouTube stardom and wrote a bestselling memoir about his rise from Midwest teenager to internet celebrity. Two years after A Work in Progress, he decides to reveal parts of himself he kept hidden from cameras and fans. Franta confronts clinical depression and social anxiety while trying to love himself. He questions how to stay genuine when social media rewards performance over real connection. He processes romantic struggles and personal losses. Through diary entries, letters written to his younger and older selves, poems, and photographs he took himself, Franta documents his attempt to live in the present moment. He fights against the pressure to constantly create content and instead turns his attention inward. The book captures a young creator at a crossroads, choosing vulnerability over the polished image his audience expects.
Genres: mental-health, autobiography, biography-memoir, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: coming-of-age, found-family
308 pages · Hardcover · Atria/Keywords Press
Content warnings: anxiety, depression, mental-illness