Shrill

In this compelling, laugh-out-loud funny, and heart-wrenching memoir, Lindy West—the beloved writer, comedian, and topical essayist known for her viral feminism and fat acceptance advocacy—shares her coming-of-age story. Insecure and anxious as a young girl in a family that both encouraged and ridiculed her boundless appetites, Lindy's discoveries about food and confidence led her to a place of self-acceptance she never thought possible. With an irreverent sense of humor and a refreshingly honest slant on relationships, sex, mental illness, beauty standards, addiction, and death—including the suicide of her mother—Shrill is one woman's story in the vein of everything from Bad Feminist to Nickel and Dimed.