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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays

by Samantha Irby

Personal essays on the mess of adulthood

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    New York Times bestseller

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Personal essays on the mess of adulthood

Samantha Irby’s essays move among money and adulthood, family history, dating, sex, and the changing shape of friendship. The collection includes a trip to Nashville to scatter her estranged father’s ashes, reflections on awkward encounters, and advice framed around keeping up with former drinking companions whose lives have shifted toward suburbia. Across these subjects, Irby turns her attention to the gap between the person she was and the person she is now, using self-directed humor to examine experiences that are often uncomfortable as well as ordinary. The variety of personal material gives the collection a broad scope, while the essay form keeps each piece focused on a particular episode or concern.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy humorous personal essays.
  • Readers interested in writing about family, adulthood, and friendship.
  • Readers looking for essays that include candid discussion of sex and awkward experiences.

Themes

Adulthood and moneyFamily historyFriendship and changing social livesSex and relationshipsSelf-reflection

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Book overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This essay collection from the "bitches gotta eat" blogger, writer on Hulu's Shrill and HBO's And Just Like That, and "one of our country's most fierce and foulmouthed authors" (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears.

"A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations."--The New York Times


Whether Samantha Irby is 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; or 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.

Don't miss Samantha Irby's bestselling new book, Quietly Hostile!
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