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Go the Fuck to College

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This laugh-out-loud, latest installment in Adam Mansbach’s profane, #1 New York Times best-selling series, probably CAN be read to—and by—your graduating child, though it might bring you all to tears

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What people are saying…

Go the F*ck to College is just as sweet, sardonic, and endearingly cathartic as Go the F*ck to Sleep. Even for those of us with pre-teens, it’s a wonderful reminder that the parenting journey is long and fraught, difficult and beautiful—and that it would do use good to find a little humor in it.”
Fatherly

“If you’re searching for a poignant way to bestow a lifetime of wisdom on your kids before sending them off to college, author Adam Mansbach might have just what you’re looking for . . . There is a lot of wisdom in this book.”
TODAY

“Written for families preparing for the emotional rollercoaster of the college sendoff season, the ‘bookend’ to Go the F**K to Sleep series is beautiful and sweet . . . it’s crunch time, and these are your cliff notes.”
Morning Joe

“‘Go the F— to College is a very funny and, yes, profane—but who the f— cares—take on sending a kid to college,’ Danson said of the book in a statement shared with PEOPLE. ‘The excitement, the sadness, all the weird stuff in between. It’s laugh-out-loud funny—really, truly. It’s perfect for any graduating senior or their parents,’ the Emmy winner continued. ‘But the truth is, it’s really you seniors who should go out and buy this for your parents, because it’ll help them get in touch with their emotions, which are very confusing for them in this moment. You’re fine. Your parents need help. Go get one. You won’t regret it.’”
People

“Countless sleep-deprived parents around the world were grateful when, in 2011, Mansbach published a riproaringly profane parody of a children’s book to help kids fall asleep. A series of Go the Fuck to Sleep books followed. And why not? The novelist hit on a hilarious conceit—merging syrupy-sweet kid-lit prose with R-rated kickers—that kept on giving. As happens, children grow older. Yet don’t they still need some advice when heading off to college? Yes, those doorstopper guides on best colleges might help, but they’re not quite as funny as Mansbach’s latest book . . . Yet more laughs for overwhelmed parents—as they become empty nesters.”
Kirkus Reviews

“Now comes Go the F*ck to College, a heartfelt-but-still-funny treatment of the many emotions Mansbach is feeling as his eldest, Vivien, begins their next chapter: Bard College.”
Boston Globe

Critical praise for Go the Fuck to Sleep:

• A New York Times, Amazon.com, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly number one bestseller
• One of Reader’s Digest‘s 25 Funniest Books of All Time!

“A new Bible for weary parents.”
New York Times

“Incredibly appealing.”
NPR

“A parenting zeitgeist . . . A phenomenon that has stunned the publishing world and may just redefine the modern ‘parenting’ market.”
Washington Post

“Delightfully obscene.”
Newsweek

“Nothing has driven home a certain truth about my generation, which is approaching the apex of its childbearing years, quite like this deranged book.”
New Yorker


Description

WHEN YOUR KID IS LITTLE, the paradoxes of parenting are simple: you can love your child to death, and also be willing to do anything to get them to go the fuck to sleep. But by the time your precious little baby bird is getting ready to spread its wings and leave the nest? That’s a whole different level of complexity. You’re happy and sad. Thrilled and devastated. You want to give them all the advice you can, but you know they’ve got to make their own mistakes. You want them to know they can always come home, but also you’re turning their bedroom into a gym.

With Adam Mansbach’s trademark honesty, humor, and profanity, Go the Fuck to College perfectly captures the complicated emotional reality of this poignant, fraught, exciting time. A perfect gift for any graduating senior—or their parents or grandparents—this book somehow encapsulates everything you’d ever want to tell your kid . . . along with a few things you’d never dream of saying out loud.


Book Details

  • Hardcover: 28 pages
  • Published: 5/5/26
  • IBSN: 9781636142920
  • e-IBSN: 9781636142937

Authors

ADAM MANSBACH is the author of the #1 international best-selling Go the Fuck to Sleep series, as well as the novels The End of the Jews (winner of the California Book Award), the best-selling The Golem of Brooklyn, Rage Is Back, Angry Black White Boy, and the memoir-in-verse I Had a Brother Once. With Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel, he cowrote A Field Guide to the Jewish People. The screenwriter of the Netflix Original film Barry, his books for young readers include the award-winning Jake the Fake series and the instant New York Times bestseller Just Try One Bite.

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OWEN BROZMAN illustrates comics, advertisements, album covers, magazines, murals, books, and more. In addition to You Have to Fucking Eat and Fuck, Now There Are Two of You, his work includes Kindness & Salt, a cookbook from the team behind Brooklyn’s Buttermilk Channel, and the graphic novel Nature of the Beast. You can see more of his work at owenbrozman.com.

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