Unqualified

January 22, 2018
Faris—actress, producer, and host of the Anna Faris Is Unqualified podcast—narrates this lighthearted mix of autobiography and ruminations on love and relationships. As narrator, Farris projects the down-to-earth persona that fans of her character on the sitcom Mom would expect, with whimsy mixed with grit. The podcast elements take on a conversational tone, with audience shout-outs and asides, while the memoir portions seem more like a traditional author-read audiobook production. The anecdotes from her marriage to actor Chris Pratt (which ended just before the book’s publication) shift confusingly between past and present tense in the audiobook. But this ties into a recurring theme of Faris’s narrative: that complete closure in matters of the heart doesn’t really exist. The audiobook will likely be of greatest interest to fans of Faris’s podcast, rather than finding a broader audience. A Dutton hardcover.