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<b><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER </b>• This essay collection from the “bitches gotta eat” blogger, writer on Hulu’s <i>Shrill </i>and HBO's<i> And Just Like That</i>, and “one of our country’s most fierce and foulmouthed authors” (Amber Tamblyn, <i>Vulture</i>) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears.<br><br>"A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations.”—<i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br> 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.<br><br><b>Don't miss Samantha Irby's bestselling new book, <i>Quietly Hostile!</i></b>