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. "A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations.”- The New York Times 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.
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