Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER<br /><br />NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: <br />NPR, </b><b><b><b><b><i>ESQUIRE</i>,</b></b></b></b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b> <i>The LA Times</i>, and <i>NEWSWEEK<br /><br /></i></b></b></b></b></b></b>WINNER OF THE STRANGER GENIUS AWARD<br /><br /><i>Shrill </i>is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny.<br /><br /></b> Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but. <br /><br /> From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes; to her struggle to convince herself, and then the world, that fat people have value; to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea.<br /><br /> With inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect, and how to weather hatred, loneliness, harassment, and loss, and walk away laughing. <i>Shrill </i>provocatively dissects what it means to become self-aware the hard way, to go from wanting to be silent and invisible to earning a living defending the silenced in all caps.