num_pages: 260
description: Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small quiet and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but. From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried unsuccessfully to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes; to her struggle to convince herself and then the world that fat people have value; to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea.With inimitable good humor vulnerability and boundless charm Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect and how to weather hatred loneliness harassment and loss--and walk away laughing. Shrill provocatively dissects what it means to become self-aware the hard way to go from wanting to be silent and invisible to earning a living defending the silenced in all caps.
language: English
title: Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
publisher: Hachette