Goodbye Salad Days: Kevin Faces Adulthood

By Traer Scott

Goodbye Salad Days tells the story of Kevin, a regular hamster in a familiar quarter-life crisis.

Kevin's got his own hamster-sized home, hamster-sized furniture, and the soul-crushing societal expectation to do adulthood right.

Both adorable and painfully relatable, this book is sure to hit a soft spot in any reader trying to make the best of growing up and facing adulthood.

• Features 25 scenarios with short captions
• Filled with full color photographs of Kevin in handmade dioramas
• At once perfectly weird and very relatable, making it a great gift

Life for Kevin means enduring the grind of work responsibilities, an aching body, and mounting pressure from his parents to start a family, among other things.

This sweet and funny book is a great gift or self-purchase for anyone hitting their quarter-life crisis and in need of some relatable laughs.

• This hilarious and cute book is for anyone who has experienced (or is about to experience) these moments of loss and despair, and need a good laugh or a pick-me-up
• Also a great gift for anyone who loves hamsters—especially funny photos of them
• Author Traer Scott is a celebrated animal photographer and has had work featured in National Geographic
• Add it to the shelf with books like Henri, le Chat Noir: The Existential Musings of an Angst-Filled Cat by William Braden, The Secret Life of Squirrels by Nancy Rose, and Awkward Family Pet Photos by Mike Bender and Doug Chernack.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chronicle Books Digital
• Release date: Jun 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781452182148

Traer Scott

Traer Scott is an award-winning photographer and bestselling author of 14 books, specializing in animal photography, the human/animal bond and conservation-themed fine art photography. Scott’s work has been exhibited around the world and has appeared in National Geographic, Time, La Monde, Life, Der Stern, The New York Times LensBlog, and dozens of other national and international publications. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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For Agatha and Jesse.

Serendipity is real-life magic.

Text copyright © 2020 by Traer Scott.

Photography copyright © 2020 by Traer Scott.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written

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ISBN: 978-1-4521-8193-6 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4521-8214-8 (epub, mobi)

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Contents

Goodbye Salad Days

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