num_pages: 203
description: Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012 she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings and which quickly gained a dedicated following. In So Sad Today Broder delves deeper into the existential themes she explores on Twitter grappling with sex death love low self-esteem addiction and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back. With insights as sharp as her humor Broder exploresin prose that is both gutsy and beautiful aggressively colloquial and achingly poeticquestions most of us are afraid to even acknowledge let alone answer in order to discover what it really means to be a person in this modern world.
language: English
title: So Sad Today: Personal Essays
publisher: Grand Central Publishing