Wow, No Thank You.
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Samantha Irby
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction Award Winner • A rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays from the New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.“Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny.” —Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick MirrorIrby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. 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. This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. 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 [her] knees," who still hides past due bills under her pillow.The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life. Wow, No Thank You. is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable.Don't miss Samantha Irby's bestselling new book, Quietly Hostile!
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Author
Samantha Irby
Pages
288
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2020-03-31
ISBN
0525563490 9780525563495
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"It took me a while to read this book bc sam’s musings are funny but a little bit stressful at times. I really do love her writing though. She’s made an art form out of the complainant"
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Finn Hughes
"Hilarious!!! Laughing out loud while reading at a coffee shop. Can’t wait to read her others #samanthairby"
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Whitney Larson
"I just remembered that I bought this book at the end of last year and my mom borrowed it and I still haven't gotten it back."
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Allykay Willims
"Hilarious tales of an awkward Black woman navigating some of life’s most mundane and “normal” challenges "
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Tyler Senecharles
"Irby captures Gen X longing."
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Debra Ochoa
"Samantha Irby is quite possibly the only person who understands me on a spiritual and gastrointestinal level. "
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Jamie Hillis
"earnest and so funny!"
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"Mine too! Have you read any of her other books?"
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