Laugh out loud funny the whole way through

When I started reading, I was laughing so hard I was crying every few pages. I would read a paragraph to my boyfriend and he would laugh and this happened so many times over and over again that I realized if I didn’t stop reading the book out loud, I might as well just record an audiobook of me reading these chapters that I didn’t actually write, because I was already putting in the effort.

Irby’s voice is fresh, unfailing, honest, and candidly reassuring. I don’t think it’s uncommon for people who write to start noticing that their writing sounds like the books they’ve been reading, and if that’s the case, I should read only her books forever so that I get the voice I’m looking for.

While the book was a touch slow in the last third, she brought it all back together nicely with the last couple of chapters. I am definitely excited to read her other books and look forward to following her writing wherever I can find it.