![]() ![]() 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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