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Book

We are never meeting in real life : essays

Call Number

  • 814 I653.1 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Vintage Books, 2017.

Physical Description

xii, 275 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

With heartfelt candor and her usual side-splitting bite, humorist, essayist, and blogger at bitchesgottaeat.com Samantha Irby captures powerful emotional truths while chronicling the disaster that has been her life. An ill-fated pilgrimage and romantic vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes, awkward sexual encounters, a Bachelorette application gone awry, and more-- sometimes you just have to laugh, even when your life is a dumpster fire.

Contents

  • My Bachelorette application
  • A blues for Fred
  • The miracle porker
  • Do you guys pay your fucking bills or what?
  • You don't have to be grateful for sex
  • A Christmas carol
  • Hapy birthday
  • A case for remaining indoors
  • A total attack of the heart
  • A civil union
  • Mavis
  • Fuck it, bitch, stay fat
  • Nashville hot chicken
  • I'm in love and it's boring
  • A bomb, probably
  • The real housewife of Kalamazoo
  • Thirteen questions to ask before getting married
  • Yo, I need a job
  • Feelings are a mistake
  • We are never meeting in real life.

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