Matt Richtel

Join Charlotte Arts & Lectures and Cleary's Bookstore for an educational evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Matt Richtel to celebrate the release of his new book How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence. 

Richtel spent nearly two years reporting a nine-part, award-winning New York Times series on the post-pandemic adolescent mental health crisis called “The Inner Pandemic” (2022). It was an eye-opening, in-depth, and sobering look at our country that captivated readers. But the project left Richtel with more questions than answers. Richtel's deeply reported response comes in this compelling new science book.

In the first book of its kind, Richtel explains the very nature of this most-pivotal life period. He uses cutting-edge research, evolutionary biology, and powerful narrative to build on and move beyond the smartphone conversation and provide parents a user manual for their teens in an era of chaos.

The book draws on three years of rigorous reporting of…