Wow, No Thank You.: Essays by Samantha Irby

Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

by Samantha Irby

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR BISEXUAL NONFICTION AWARD WINNER

A rip-roaring, edgy, and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays from the New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

“Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny.” —Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror

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 been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of a Red state. She now hosts book clubs and makes mason jar salads, living 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.

The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life. Wow, No Thank You. is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable.

Don't miss Samantha Irby's bestselling new book, Quietly Hostile!