


Wow, No Thank You is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable. The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life. She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles taking meetings with "TV executives slash amateur astrologers" while being a "cheese fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person," "with neck pain and no cartilage in knees," who still hides past due bills under her pillow. Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby was like reading a book I would write, just funnier. This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of a Red state where she now hosts book clubs and makes mason jar salads. Irby is 40, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. Wow, No Thank You.: Essays Samantha Irby 17.00 15. She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles taking meetings with "skinny, luminous peoples" while being a "cheese fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person," "with neck pain and no cartilage in knees," and hides Entenmann's cookies under her bed and unopened bills under her pillow.A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and best-selling Samantha Irby. A new essay collection from Samantha Irby about aging, marria. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and is courted by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife and two step-children in a small white, Republican town in Michigan where she now hosts book clubs. Read 4,837 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Irby is turning forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin. Wow, No Thank You is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable. A new essay collection from Samantha Irby about aging, marriage, settling down with step-children in white, small-town America. The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irbys new life.
