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Start giftingSorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
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Learn moreRandom House presents the audiobook edition of Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come written by Jessica Pan.
What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Jessica Pan is going to find out.
When she found herself jobless and friendless, sitting in the familiar Jess-shaped crease on her sofa, she couldn't help but wonder what life might have looked like if she had been a little more open to new experiences and new people, a little less attached to going home instead of going to the pub.
So, she made a vow: to push herself to live the life of an extrovert for a year. She wrote a list: improv, a solo holiday and... talking to strangers on the tube. She regretted it instantly.
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come follows Jess's hilarious and painful year of misadventures in extroverting, reporting back from the frontlines for all the introverts out there.
But is life actually better or easier for the extroverts? Or is it the nightmare Jess always thought it would be?
Jessica Pan is a journalist whose work has appeared in the likes of the Guardian's Weekend magazine, Stylist, The Cut, Lenny Letter and Vice.
She has a BA in Psychology from Brown University. Jessica is also the co-author of the book Graduates in Wonderland, an epistolary memoir about living in Beijing and Paris.
She previously worked as a TV reporter and magazine editor in Beijing and now lives in London.
Jessica Pan is a features writer and freelance journalist whose writing has appeared in the Guardian Weekend Magazine, Stylist, The Cut (New York Magazine), Lenny Letter, Jezebel, ELLE, the Daily Telegraph, Broadly (VICE) and many more.
She has a BA in Psychology and Literary Arts from Brown University and a Masters in Journalism from RMIT. She previously worked as a TV reporter and magazine editor in Beijing and now lives in London.