What happens when you outgrow the life you’ve built?
In Self-Assembly: An Unconventional Memoir, Katya Andresen explores what it takes to pull yourself apart and assemble yourself into someone new—by choice or by force.
On sale May 11, 2027
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“Beautifully relatable, Katya Andresen doesn’t do tidy lessons. She writes with real honesty about what happens when life stops going as planned and becomes something you didn’t know you needed. I inhaled every word.”
— Jennifer Pastiloff, bestselling author of Proof of Life: Let Go, Let Love, and Stop Looking for Permission to Live Your Life
“Raw, vulnerable, and beautifully told, this is a story about the messy, complicated work of continually putting ourselves back together—and the hope that comes from realizing we can. Katya’s story is so relatable and ultimately empowering, reminding us that we are all works in progress.”
— Fran Hauser, bestselling author of Twenty Minutes Is the New Hour, The Myth of the Nice Girl, keynote speaker, and owner of Bedford Books