memoirs

Presents a collection of essays by American comedian, author, and blogger, Samantha Irby.

A collection of essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, being black, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is crafted with the same scathing wit and poignant candor thousands of loyal readers have come to expect from visiting her notoriously hilarious blog.

Nicole Georges describes her life with herdysfunctional dog, Beija, a pet that saw her through many changes in life over the course of fifteen years.

The author articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America, but what poverty is truly like on all levels. Also discusses how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why "poor people don't always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should.".