"Things I Can't Explain: A Clarissa Novel" Set for 11/10/15

[JamesG]

"Clarissa" Meets "Girls"? "Clarissa Explains It All" Continues with Things I Can't Explain -- EXCLUSIVE
by Stephan Lee
Mar 22 2013


Watching repeats of Nickelodeon’s "Clarissa Explains It All" is like opening a neon-colored ’90s time capsule, where 15-year-old Clarissa Darling could explain absolutely anything with the help of quippy monologues, her best friend Sam, and rudimentary computer games.

Now, almost 19 years after the series finale, "Clarissa" creator Mitchell Kriegman is letting our fashion-forward heroine enter uncharted territory with a new book, Things I Can’t Explain, tentatively slated for Fall 2014.





Acquired by Thomas Dunne Books editor and Macmillan Films head Brendan Deneen, the novel will follow 23-year-old Clarissa as she tries to carve out a career as a journalist and deals with the obstacles toward becoming a real adult:

Finding and keeping a job in a turbulent economy, the luxury of a first apartment without roommates, figuring out how to deal with parents all over again, and unexpected feelings for a really cute guy who — of course — has an on-and-off again girlfriend.





The premise sounds a lot like "Clarissa Now", the 1995 CBS pilot that never made it to series but I would have given my right pinky toe to see.

Will Ferguson be as dorky as always? (I could picture him as a business major at NYU). Will Sam climb up Clarissa’s New York fire escape like a terrifying intruder? Will Things I Can’t Explain ever get adapted for the CW or ABC Family?

What are your hopes for 20-something Clarissa?

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[MacLeaper]

Wow- cool! I can't say I'm a big fan of this series or anything, but I'm sure Clarissa Explains It All fans will be ecstatic!

[Furienna]

Yeah, it's been many years since I watched the show, but I wouldn't mind reading that book.

[JamesG]

Things I Can't Explain: A Clarissa Novel – November 10, 2015
by Mitchell Kriegman, Creator of "Clarissa Explains It All"


Purchase At: http://www.amazon.com/Things-Cant-Ex.../dp/1250046548




A complete re-imagining of the 1990s television hit "Clarissa Explains It All" as 20-something Clarissa tries to navigate the unemployment line, mompreneurs and the collision of two people in love.

She was a smart, snappy, light-hearted girl who knew it all at fourteen and let television audiences everywhere know it. Now a woman in her late twenties, her searching blue eyes are more serious, but mostly amused by the people around her.

The gap-toothed smile that made her seem younger than she really was is gone, but she still lightens up the room. Her unpredictable wardrobe rocks just like when she was a kid, but her fashion sense has evolved and it makes men and women turn their heads.




After leaving high school early, Clarissa interned at the Daily Post while attending night school. At the ripe old age of twenty- two she had it made - her own journalism beat (fashion, gender politics and crime), an affordable apartment in FiDi and a livable wage. She was so totally ahead of the game.

Ah, those were the days! All three of them. Remember the Stock Market Crash of 08? Remember when people actually bought newspapers?




All of Clarissa's charming obsessions, charts, graphs, and superstitions have survived into adulthood, but they've evolved into an ever-greater need to claw the world back under control.

Her mid-twenties crisis has left her with a whole set of things she can't explain: an ex-boyfriend turned stalker, her parents' divorce, a micro relationship with the cute coffee guy, java addiction, "To-Flue Glue," and then there's Sam. Where's Sam anyway?




Things I Can't Explain is about knowing it all in your teens and then feeling like you know nothing in your twenties. It is an entertaining and must-read sequel to all fans of Mitchell Kriegman's Nickelodeon TV show, "Clarissa Explains It All".

[Furienna]

Originally Posted by JamesG

her parents' divorce

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