Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Lambda Literary Award)

Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Lambda Literary Award)

<b>A Vintage Paperback Original.<br>A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and bestselling Samantha Irby.</b><br><br>Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of a Red state where she now hosts book clubs and makes mason jar salads. This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles taking meetings with "tv executives slash amateur astrologers" while being a "cheese fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person," "with neck pain and no cartilage in [her] knees," who still hides past due bills under her pillow.<br>      The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life. <i>Wow, No Thank</i> You is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable.