![]() Irby’s closeness to financial and physical precariousness combined with her willingness to enter situations she feels unprepared for make us loyal to her-she again proves herself to be a trustworthy and admirable narrator who readers will hold fast to through anything at all. ![]() Irby defines professional lingo and describes the mundane details of exclusive industries in anecdotes that are not only entertaining but powerfully demystifying. She proves we can still trust her authenticity not just through her questionable taste in music and descriptions of incredibly bloody periods, but through her willingness to demystify what happens in any privileged room she finds herself in. Praise for Wow, No Thank You. If anyone whose life is being made into a television show could continue to keep it real for her blog reading fans, it’s Irby. Though (spoiler alert) depression has followed her from Chicago, Irby’s collection shows a little more vulnerability and a little less deflection than her previous books. , Samantha Irby details life now that she’s forty, married, and living in the Midwest with her wife. Her essays poke holes and luxuriate in the weirdness of modern society. In her latest collection of essays, Wow, No Thank You. From relationship advice she wasn’t asked for to surrendering her cell phone as dinner etiquette, Irby is wholly unpretentious as she opines about the unspoken expectations of adulting. ![]() ![]() Haphazard and aimless as she claims to be, Samantha Irby’s Wow, No Thank You is purposefully hilarious, real, and full of medicine for living with our culture’s contradictory messages. ![]()
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