Wow, No Thank You. Essays by Samantha Irby

Samantha Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin—despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics promised her!

She has left her job as a veterinary receptionist, published successful books, and been "friendzoned" by Hollywood. After leaving Chicago for a blue town in a red state, Irby now navigates a house that requires actual know-how, hosts book clubs, and makes mason jar salads. It is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream—sort of.

The essays in Wow, No Thank You. draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life: bad dates with new friends, meetings in Los Angeles with "TV executives slash amateur astrologers," and the struggle of being a "cheese fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person" with no cartilage left in her knees. This collection finds Samantha Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable.

A #1 New York Times Bestseller and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. Don't miss this comedic masterpiece, and be sure to check out her latest hit, Quietly Hostile!