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Naked in the Rideshare: Stories of Gross Miscalculations

by Rebecca Shaw

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Satirical coming-of-age comedy for an online generation

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Satirical coming-of-age comedy for an online generation

A collection of comic short pieces that turns contemporary coming-of-age into a series of exaggerated social collisions. Its subjects include relationships, sex, politics, meme culture, wellness culture, and the public rituals of apology and self-presentation associated with life online. The scenarios move from a summer-camp competition that veers into ritual sacrifice to a gathering where one teenager encounters versions of themself across eight decades. Satire, self-deprecation, and irreverence shape the book’s approach to generational hopes and anxieties, while its premise challenges easy assumptions about young people.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in satirical short fiction about contemporary adulthood
  • Fans of irreverent comedy involving internet culture, relationships, and politics
  • Those looking for humorous takes on generational anxieties

Themes

Coming of ageInternet cultureGenerational identityRelationships and sexualitySatire

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Book overview

From Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold, the youngest comedy writers ever for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and masterminds behind the viral 2018 Yale graduation speech, comes a hilarious collection of short stories taking on coming-of-age, memes, sex, politics, relationships, and Goop, with satire, self-deprecation, and utter irreverence.

Showing off their trademark humor and writing chops that have made them a viral sensation, Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold provide a collection of startlingly funny short stories that will keep readers laughing.

Naked in the Rideshare is a riotous collection of comedic short stories, bursting with the safe spaces, shrooms dealers, and Notes app apologies that define growing up right now. The essays take a drunken cannonball into this generation's hopes and anxieties. A camp color war ends in ritual sacrifice. A twenty-something enters a sexual relationship with his childhood fairy god milf. A summit outside of space and time brings together a teen's selves from ages 1 to 81.

Irreverent, disturbing, and surprisingly rife with hope, Naked in the Rideshare aims to shine a light on the generation we can't stop talking about--and all the ways we get them so wrong.

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