Samantha Irby has done it again! This collection had me ugly laughing in public and turning back just to laugh at the same lines again. But it also made me pause and reflect for a while on some tough stuff. Every time I finish anything by this author I feel just way less alone in this chaotic human experience, and I can only hope that I’ve somehow gotten funnier from being exposed to her brilliant wit too. This book was perfect to end 2023, the year that has humbled me more than any other LOL. *Fitting that I read the “Body Horror” essay after just turning 27 this month, because I too as a teen thought that 27 was “the definitive full stop age I needed to have my shit together by” and now that I’m here I could not laugh any harder at that concept. And this book helped me laugh even harder at it!