Wow, no thank you : essays
Irby, Samantha2020
Book
Irby is turning forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and is courted by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife and two step-children in a small white, Republican town in Michigan where she now hosts book clubs. This is the bourgeois life of dreams. She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles taking meetings with "skinny, luminous peoples" while being a "cheese fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person," "with neck pain and no cartilage in her] knees," and hides Entenmann's cookies under her bed and unopened 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.
Main title:
Wow, no thank you : essays / Samantha Irby.
Author:
Irby, Samantha, author
Edition:
Vintage Books original.
Imprint:
New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020.©2020
Collation:
319 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780525563488 (pbk)9780525563488 (pbk)9780525563488 (paperback)0525563482 (paperback)
Dewey class:
814.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
641793
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Biography | BIOG 814.6 IRBY | Available |
| Library at the Dock | -Biography | BIOG 814.6 IRBY | Available |
| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | -Literature | LITER 814.6 IRBY | Available |