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*A New York Times Bestseller*
Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire.
With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., “bitches gotta eat” blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Whether talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making “adult” budgets, explaining why she should be the new Bachelorette—she's "35-ish, but could easily pass for 60-something"—detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes, sharing awkward sexual encounters, or dispensing advice on how to navigate friendships with former drinking buddies who are now suburban moms—hang in there for the Costco loot—she’s as deft at poking fun at the ghosts of her past self as she is at capturing powerful emotional truths.Product details
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage (May 30, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1101912197
ISBN-13: 978-1101912195
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.7 star See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)#6 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Love, Sex & Marriage
#12 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Essays
#14 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Satire
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samantha irby writes a blog called bitches gotta eat and has written two books: "meaty" and "we are never meeting in real life."Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of June 2017: Samantha Irby brings a collection of funny (at times hilarious) and poignant essays in We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. There were more than a few times that I caught myself laughing out loud while reading these glimpses into Irby's life and observations, and other times that I felt like she had climbed into my mind and said all the things I'm not edgy enough to vocalize. From her fantastically odd relationship with her weird cat, Helen Keller, to her real and vulnerable battles with health issues, Irby's writing and wit crosses all demographic lines and speaks to all beings. Since finishing ‘Never Meeting’ I have gone back and read post after post of Irby's blog… just because I want more. Be ready to be caught off guard with power and laughter. --Penny Mann, The Amazon Book Review
Review
“The second book of essays from this frank and madly funny blogger.... A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times, Summer Reading Pick
“A memoir of the life of a sardonic, at times awkward, at times depressed black woman with Crohn’s (an inflammatory-bowel disease) and degenerative arthritis.... Her acerbic, raw honesty on the page — often punctuated with all-caps comic parenthetical asides — unflinchingly recounts experiences such as the humiliating intrusion of explosive diarrhea on romantic and borderline-romantic interludes.”—Kera Bolonik, New York Magazine
“Irby...is so authentic, entertaining, and fearless, funny seems too concise a word to describe stepping inside her thoughts for a couple hundred pages. Her writing is both confident and self-deprecating and will strike readers in that perfectly relatable space between glorious confidence and average self-doubt. Essays about how much she despises her cat and an ill-timed gastronomical adventure are mind-blowingly hilarious, as are her musings on the great outdoors, her hypothetical Bachelor application, and Zumba. Other pieces, especially those involving her mostly-absent alcoholic father and her mother’s battle with multiple sclerosis are so vulnerable and fearless that they’ll stop you in your tracks. Irby doesn’t shy away from anything, and her brand of honesty is the kind that can inspire new writers and attract legions of loyal readers dying to meet her in real life.” —Molly Labell, BUST
“Essayist Samantha Irby is my very favorite sort of writer: stunningly direct, wildly hilarious, breathtakingly honest and, best of all, imminently relatable.”—Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune
“From the blogger behind Bitches Gotta Eat comes a seriocomic essay collection that will have you crying from laughter and then just crying. A boisterous medley of awkward sex, pop culture obsession and coming-of-age.”—Oprah.com
“Turn off the TV, let the dishes pile up, pull on your most comfy pair of sweats and settle into your reading chair. You’re going to be there awhile.”—Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
“I love Samantha Irby’s writing.... Read the whole thing.”—The Billfold
“Besides having one of the season's best covers...Irby's new collection of essays is an often riotously funny, unflinching, and never not provocative look into her life. Irby tackles difficult topics, like her estrangement from her father and how growing up in poverty has lifelong repercussions, including making it impossible to understand how to do things like ‘save for a rainy day.’.... Irby writes about the ways in which our society is so focused on aspirational living, that it neglects the people who are just trying to survive. But the book is never preachy, rather it is skillful in its ability to reveal the essential realities of how so many of us live and dream and hope and fail, in ways that are inimitably our own.”—NYLON
"Samantha Irby is my favorite living writer. Actually, I’ll throw in the dead ones too. Screw you, Herman Melville.” —Lindy West, author of Shrill
“Reading Samantha Irby’s We Are Never Meeting In Real Life cracked my heart all the way open. The essays in this outstanding collection are full of her signature humor, wit, and charming self-deprecation but there is so much more to her writing. For every laugh, there is a bittersweet moment that could make you cry. From black women and mental health to the legacies created by poverty to dating while living in an all too human body, Irby lays bare the beautiful, uncompromising truths of her life. I cannot remember the last time I was so moved by a book. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life is as close to perfect as an essay collection can get.” —Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Difficult Women and Bad Feminist
"This book didn't make me laugh out loud. It made me laugh silently, wheezing and crying, until my sides ached." —Rainbow Rowell, New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park
“Sometimes Samantha Irby’s writing will make you want to hug her. Sometimes it will make you want to be hugged by her. Sometimes it will make you want to lock her in your closet so you might take credit for this hysterical, honest and authentic book. The last one might just be me.” –Jenny Lawson, “The Bloggess” and bestselling author of Furiously Happy
“Get ready to do that thing where you go from laughing hysterically to sobbing uncontrollably, because those two emotional states have never been closer. Irby's writing--about sex, death, disability, garlic scapes—is so relentlessly funny, the gravity and deeply generous vulnerability of it can sneak up on you.”—Kate Harding, author of Asking for It
“There is simply no one like Samantha Irby. Reading her is emotional whiplash; you are crying laughing and then crying and then so deeply moved that you don't know what you are. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life is life as written by blood and viscera and fluids and heart, a near to bursting bright red, beating throbbing fighting heart. If the world is a dumpster fire, then this book is the cache of fireworks that shoots out of the flames and lights up the night. You're shocked and kind of worried for your well-being, but you're also laughing too hard to do anything about it.” —Lindsay Hunter, author of Ugly Girls
Customer Reviews
5.0 star
Read this book! Antidote to crazy news...
ByGail Andrewson June 15, 2017|Verified Purchase
Omg, so glad to have discovered this super talented scary smart author. She reminds me of a friend, who should be scared/proud/ flattered. I am a 66 year old snowflake and much of this is "young folks stuff" but damn if I don't relate on so many levels.Buy this book if you want to laugh and maybe a little demonic chuckle.
5.0 star
All of the LOLZ.
ByAmanda L. Petersenon June 7, 2017|Verified Purchase
Buy this book. Read this book. Love this book.
Then, apply the same steps above to Irby's other amazing literary gem, "Meaty."
You're welcome.
4.0 star
Real and Hysterical!
ByAaliyahAon June 18, 2017|Verified Purchase
What an amazing collection of essays! Samantha Irby is now one of my favorite writers. Her wit and candor was refreshing and so funny. What struck me beyond the sentences that actually made me laugh out loud, was how honest all these essays are. Samantha had a lot that I relate to. A lot of her insecure paranoia was too reminiscent of my own life. From anxiety, depression, unrequited love, and weight-loss nothing is off topic. I laughed and cringed quite a bit, but that's what made this essay collection so funny and real. Samantha Irby is my new favorite writer.
5.0 star
I loved this book
ByMelissaon June 13, 2017|Verified Purchase
I loved this book. Samantha Irby has a writing style that is both funny and painful and real all at once. She's one of those writers that will make you laugh then the next sentence make you cry. Buy this book and her other essay book - Meaty. They're great.
5.0 star
This book. NOW.
ByBQuimbyon June 3, 2017|Verified Purchase
"Sometimes I have a disproportionately rage-filled response to otherwise harmless sh*t..." This! Exactly. Me too. Plus being semi reclusive, hot weather adversive, sensible shoe wearing...
Build an altar to Sam Irby, and I will come make offerings -- chocolate crackle cookies, high thread count pillow cases, moisturizing tissues, and a gift card for Instacart.
Unsure what I read/where about Irby, but pre-ordered this book, started reading it on the bus ride home and tried to stifle many, ugly snort-laughs from the get go. I ususlly pass along books to friends, but I am definetely keeping this one to read again, and just to HAVE it.
Funny, sharp, intelligent, honest...dang. Just a freaking great book.
5.0 star
Why are you wasting time reading this review when you could reading this book? Get on it b#!@?es!
Bysplendidcakeson June 23, 2017|Verified Purchase
Samantha Irby has changed me-my son says he's afraid of the new me but whatever get over it kid. Ok, I'm mostly joking when I call him b*tch and he's 19 so don't pity him. ANYWAY, Samantha Irby is amazing and funny and then she rips your heart out but then makes you laugh more so it's alright. She wouldn't believe this but she makes me want to be a better person- not a go outside person because that's crazy but tougher. She is that and a brilliant writer as well.
5.0 star
Exceeds all expectations!
ByAmazon Customeron June 16, 2017|Verified Purchase
Already re-reading this incredible collection of essays! Irby has captured the human condition and preserved it in solid gold sarcasm. I am buying copies of this book for my best friends, and highly recommending it to people who will enjoy it but who are not worth spending my money on.
5.0 star
Another book by Samantha Irby that I just could not stop reading...
ByAdriane C.on June 2, 2017|Verified Purchase
I woke my husband up way too late shaking the bed with uncontrollable laughter on the two days/nights it took me to finish. I just love Sam, who feels like a friend even though we've never met in real life.
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