Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

Wow, No Thank You.: Essays*AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* "Stay up all night, miss your subway stop, spit out your beverage funny. irresistible as a snack tray, as intimately pleasurable as an Irish goodbye." Jia Tolentino From Samantha Irby, beloved author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, a rip roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays. Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational

*AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*

"Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny.... irresistible as a snack tray, as intimately pleasurable as an Irish goodbye."
--Jia Tolentino

From Samantha Irby, beloved author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, a rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays.

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.

The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life. Wow, No Thank You. is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/31/2020
ISBN: 9780525563488
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2020
Booklist 02/01/2020 pg. 16
Library Journal 03/01/2020 pg. 89