A review by kaliaddy
An Age of License by Lucy Knisley

2.0

I’m clearing my queue of books that have been in my list for a while and I think I probably should have read this book a few years ago when I wasn’t overly exasperated by the state of the world. I know most young adults go through uncertainty (for me my hand wringing was always about income and never about relationships). But then you outgrow it and just live your life. With a pandemic going on, I just was not really into the story of a girl in her mid-20s traveling and wondering where her life is headed. “A pandemic is coming sweetie so it won’t matter” - is what I want to say. Nothing atypical happens insofar as “traveling to Europe in your youth” stories go. Jet lag, a brief romance, some cute towns, an existential crisis, then home again. The illustrations are cute and you can read it in an hour. Maybe young teenagers or 20-somethings who are currently experiencing angst would enjoy it more.