Wow, No Thank You

<b><b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • </b>Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction Award <b>Winner • A<b> rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays from the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.</i><br></b><br>“Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny.” <b>—Jia Tolentino, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Trick Mirror</i><br></b></b></b><br>Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. 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. This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. 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 [her] knees," who still hides past due bills under her pillow.<br><br>The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life. <i>Wow, No Thank You.</i> is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable.<br><br><b>Don't miss Samantha Irby's bestselling new book, <i>Quietly Hostile!</i></b>