My Secret: A PostSecret Book by Frank Warren, Frank Warren (Compiler)

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In his Los Angeles Times bestseller PostSecret, Frank Warren shared the most guarded thoughts, fantasies, and wishes of hundreds of anonymous contributors. In My Secret, he distributes another batch of private thoughts from Postsecret.com visitors. Typical messages range the simply secret to the downright vengeful; from "When my boyfriend is in the shower, I watch the porn he has downloaded on his computer" to "Have fun with your new friends. I hope they eat you alive." You can't read this book without thinking, What would I write?

From the Publisher

Postsecret.com founder and author Frank Warren is back with a fresh and compelling companion to his wildly popular Los Angeles Times bestseller, PostSecret. For My Secret, a collectible book, Warren has personally selected never-before-seen anonymous postcards created by teens and college students from across the country. Each card bears an intimate and powerful secret---at turns inspirational, shocking, hilarious, and poetic---that is told through original illustrations, photographs, collages, and other creative means. Sample messages include:

"Anorexia made her faster and we all wanted our cross-country team to qualify for state so we ignored it. Now she’s in the hospital but we got our wish."
"Have fun with your new friends. I hope they eat you alive."
"My friends think I was homeschooled. I spent high school in juvi."

A unique and important book that will appeal to both young adults and their parents, My Secret offers a raw and revealing glimpse into the real lives of today’s teens and twentysomethings. Choosing their own handmade postcards over email or text messages, teens and college students express their hopes, fears, and wildest confessions in a way that truly represents their diverse personalities and voices.

What People Are Saying

"When it comes to disposable culture, there may be no medium more negligible than the postcard. Yet in PostSecret, Frank Warren gives the postcard unexpected lucency by reproducing hundreds of cards from an ongoing public art project --- Warren selects the most heartfelt and connective messages (some funny, some tragic, some utterly transcendent) and reproduces them in full color, as autonomous works of popular art."
---Los Angeles Times

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