Book
We are never meeting in real life : essays
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.