The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
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Amy Schumer's stand-up comedy is raunchy and belly-laugh inducing. Fans will enjoy this memoir about her journey as a female comic. Her delivery makes you feel like you're in a room while she's laughing at her foibles. Her experience as a comic translates into many strengths as an audiobook narrator. Her pace is rapid--so quick, in fact, that you may miss a joke now and them. The humor is off color and includes honest discussion about sexuality as well as a liberal sprinkling of swearing. Headphones may be helpful in certain listening situations--while at the gym, for example. On the whole, this is a delightful listen with one of comedy's most honest, funniest voices. M.R. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
Starred review from August 22, 2016
In her first book, the Emmy Award-winning comedian offers an entertaining and eclectic collection of 30-plus essays, including "An Open Letter to My Vagina" and "Forgiving My Lower Back Tattoo." Her prose, like her popular comedy act, is plucky, forthright, hilariously raunchyâand honest. Though she claims the book is not an autobiography (at the age of 35, Schumer asserts, it's too early to share her life story), readers will learn of her childhood on Long Island, born into "New Money" (her father ran an exclusive baby furniture shop). By the time she's 10, however, challenging times have fallen on the family: the business is lost, her parents eventually divorce, and her beloved alcoholic father is diagnosed with MS. Schumer works various jobs (waitressing, pedicab driver, etc.) but ultimately is true to her passion for inspiring laughter. The book's centerpiece is a comparatively longer essay on her career, revealing the hard work of touring and the dedication, heartaches, missteps, and triumphs on the path to stand-up success. Along with off-the-wall one-liners, anecdotes, and confessions, Schumer shares some solemn experiences, such as bodysurfing with her disabled dad for the last time, and her involvement in an abusive relationship with a boyfriend ("When you're in love with a man who hurts you, it's a special kind of hell, yet one that so many women have experienced"). Amid ill-fated dates, alcohol-induced blackouts, and late-night eating binges, Schumer, in these candid, well-crafted essays, wears her mistakes "like badges of honor."
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