Publisher: | Anchor Books, a divison of Penguin Random Hou |
Genres: | Nonfiction Books, Essays Books |
Authors: | Joel Golby |
Pages: | 304 pages |
ISBN10: | 0525562771 |
ISBN13: | 9780525562771 |
Tags: | Nonfiction Books, Essays Books, Free Books Download, epub Books Download |
Language: | en |
Physical Form: | eBook |
Type: | ePUB |
Joel Golby's writing for Vice and The Guardian, with its wry observation and naked self-reflection, has brought him a wide and devoted following. Now, in his first book, he presents a blistering collection of new and newly expanded essays--including the achingly funny viral hit Things You Only Know When Both Your Parents Are Dead. In these pages, he travels to Saudi Arabia, where he acts as a perplexed bystander at a camel pageant; offers a survival guide for the modern dinner party (i.e. how to tactfully escape at the first sign of an adult board game); and gets pitted head-to-head, again and again, with an unpredictable, unpitying subspecies of Londoner: the landlord.
Through it all, he shows that no matter how cruel the misfortune, how absurd the circumstance, there's always the soft punch of a lesson tucked within. This is a book for anyone who overshares, overthinks, has ever felt lost or confused--and who wants to have a good laugh about it.