“Now They Tell Me: 50 Life Lessons I Didn’t Learn in School” is a funny and entertaining guide to work, love, family, sex, and religion. Every person trying to keep up with the ever-changing demands of modern life needs to read this humorous and provocative book.

Ed Harris provides a hilarious account of how formal education failed to prepare the author for the real world. Despite academic success, he was often a complete idiot outside of a classroom. When it came to typical adult challenges, such as finding a satisfying job or being a competent partner in a romantic relationship, he was clueless. He was even fired as a shopping mall Santa, as told in one of the most amusing chapters.

“Now They Tell Me’ contains the information schools should have armed you with, instead of wasting time on unnecessary topics such as trigonometric functions or the main exports of Colonial America. But help is here, and just in time, in one of the funniest books you’ll ever read.