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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays
Samantha Irby, 2017
Knopf Doubleday
288 pp.
ISBN-13: 9781101912195
Summary
Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire.
With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, “bitches gotta eat” blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form.
Whether 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
- 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. (From the publisher.)