We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
Essays
Readers rate it 4.0 (110 on Hardcover)
290 pages · Released May 30, 2017 · Vintage
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This is an adult essay collection explicitly marketed for mature audiences, with extensive profanity throughout and frank discussions of sex, trauma, and drinking. While Irby's humor is sharp and self-aware, the content—including references to childhood abuse and adult sexual encounters—makes this inappropriate for most teens under 16. The emotional honesty and resilience she models have value for older teens and adults.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This essay collection from the “bitches gotta eat” blogger, writer on Hulu’s Shrill and HBO's And Just Like That, and “one of our country’s most fierce and foulmouthed authors” (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears. "A sidesplitting pole... NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This essay collection from the “bitches gotta eat” blogger, writer on Hulu’s Shrill and HBO's And Just Like That, and “one of our country’s most fierce and foulmouthed authors” (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears. "A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations.”—The New York Times Whether Samantha Irby is talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making “adult” budgets; explaining why she should be the new Bachelorette (she's "35-ish, but could easily pass for 60-something"); detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes; sharing awkward sexual encounters; or dispensing advice on how to navigate friendships with former drinking buddies who are now suburban moms (hang in there for the Costco loot!); she’s as deft at poking fun at the ghosts of her past self as she is at capturing powerful emotional truths. Don't miss Samantha Irby's bestselling new book, Quietly Hostile!
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- Humor
- funny
- reflective
- lighthearted
- emotional
- sad
- dark
- hopeful
- LGBTQ
- Philosophy
- Biography
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ISBN 9781101912201 · Vintage