'Turn off the TV, let the dishes pile up, pull on your most comfy pair of sweats and settle into your reading chair. 'A nearly perfect collection of essays: Irby is hilarious and poignant and human, and she knows how to tell a damn good story.'- A.V. A boisterous medley of awkward sex, pop culture obsession and coming-of-age.'. 'From the blogger behind Bitches Gotta Eat comes a seriocomic essay collection that will have you crying from laughter and then just crying. 'Essayist Samantha Irby is my very favorite sort of writer: stunningly direct, wildly hilarious, breathtakingly honest and, best of all, imminently relatable.'- Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune Irby doesn't shy away from anything, and her brand of honesty is the kind that can inspire new writers and attract legions of loyal readers dying to meet her in real life.' - Molly Labell, BUST Other pieces, especially those involving her mostly-absent alcoholic father and her mother's battle with multiple sclerosis are so vulnerable and fearless that they'll stop you in your tracks. Essays about how much she despises her cat and an ill-timed gastronomical adventure are mind-blowingly hilarious, as are her musings on the great outdoors, her hypothetical Bachelor application, and Zumba. Her writing is both confident and self-deprecating and will strike readers in that perfectly relatable space between glorious confidence and average self-doubt. 'Irby.is so authentic, entertaining, and fearless, funny seems too concise a word to describe stepping inside her thoughts for a couple hundred pages.

The best thing about this book, and all of her writing, is that the reader is made to feel like they are taking a master class from their best friend, and you feel right at home with Irby's stories and points of view while also being completely in awe of her craft and wit.' - Amber Tamblyn, Vulture 'Irby is one of our country's most fierce and foulmouthed authors, whose literary takes on sex, family, and the body are unique in their comedic resonance and full gut-punch power.

Her acerbic, raw honesty on the page - often punctuated with all-caps comic parenthetical asides - unflinchingly recounts experiences such as the humiliating intrusion of explosive diarrhea on romantic and borderline-romantic interludes.' - Kera Bolonik, New York Magazine 'A memoir of the life of a sardonic, at times awkward, at times depressed black woman with Crohn's (an inflammatory-bowel disease) and degenerative arthritis. A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations.'- Janet Maslin, The New York Times, Summer Reading Pick

'The second book of essays from this frank and madly funny blogger. A New York Times Critics Top Book of 2017

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