Tangalang: Your 20s Focused Through a Lens of Erratic Rationality

Gleaning insights from perhaps the most philosophically challenging decade in life requires navigating that labyrinth with compulsive awareness. Gerald Tang can help you. He knows how it feels when a kissing session stops after telling a girl she has beautiful hair like Brad Pitt in Troy. He knows what to do when a friend offers to ride in the trunk of a cocaine dealer’s car moments before a machete appears. He knows how to digest 92 chicken nuggets eaten in one sitting, as well as the discovery of engaging in blacked-out intercourse in a hotel ice machine room while flexing biceps and eating ice cubes.

Tangalang wraps 20 chapters of overly personal stories, observations and analysis loosely around a rational take on your 20s and life’s larger questions. It reaches for grains of truth only to blow them into absurdity, leaving readers in varying degrees of amusement, horror and enlightenment.