BRUNSWICK — Curtis Friends will host an evening with local author Frank Strasburger on Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 7 p.m. The author will discuss his work and autograph his latest book, “Growing Up: Limiting Adolescence in a World Desperate for Adults.”

Available at Gulf of Maine Books and Bowdoin Bookstore (as well as Amazon for Kindle-users), “Growing Up” is aimed at all those who wonder how, when and whether they’ve become adults.

Strasburger believes we’ve all identified adulthood with the wrong benchmarks. Moving out of your parents’ house, obtaining a career, getting married, having kids and buying a house doesn’t necessarily make you a grownup. Instead, he suggests, what adulthood is really about is admitting you’re mortal and discovering you’re not the center of the universe.

Having devoted most of his 45-year career as a teacher and priest to young people, Strasburger uses real-life stories to demonstrate that adulthood isn’t necessarily age-dependent. Strasburger concludes that emotional depth, not external achievements, determines one’s passage from child to adult.

Strasburger spent more than a decade as the Episcopal chaplain at Princeton University and is co-founder and president emeritus of Princeton in Africa, a highlyacclaimed international service fellowship organization that provides recent college graduates unique opportunities to serve in developing nations. Father of three grown children, he lives with his wife, Carrie, in Brunswick on Middle Bay.

Refreshments and a book signing are planned.

For information, call 725- 5242, email friends@curtislibrary.com or visit www.curtislibrary.com.