We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays
<p><b>A </b><b><i>New York Times</i></b><b> Best Seller</b></p> <p><b>This essay collection from the “bitches gotta eat” blogger, writer on Hulu’s</b> <b><i>Shrill</i></b><b>, and “one of our country’s most fierce and foulmouthed authors” (Amber Tamblyn,</b> <b><i>Vulture</i></b><b>) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears.</b></p> <p>Whether Samantha Irby is 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.</p>