'cuz i admit-i was not crazy about We Are Never Meeting In Real Life. This book made me love samantha irby as much as the rest of you already do.
Oooh, goodreads choice awards finalist for best humor 2020! what will happen?
She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles taking meetings with "skinny, luminous peoples" while being a "cheese fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person," "with neck pain and no cartilage in knees," and hides Entenmann's cookies under her bed and unopened bills under her pillow.Īn extremely specific guide to publishing a book She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and is courted by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife and two step-children in a small white, Republican town in Michigan where she now hosts book clubs. Irby is turning forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin. Wow, No Thank You is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable"-Amazon.A new essay collection from Samantha Irby about aging, marriage, settling down with step-children in white, small-town America. The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life. She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles taking meetings with "tv executives slash amateur astrologers" while being a "cheese fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person," "with neck pain and no cartilage in knees," who still hides past due bills under her pillow. This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of a Red state where she now hosts book clubs and makes mason jar salads.
Summary: "Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her.
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