Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom

• Book ID: 126203006
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Standards

✦ Synopsis

"I subscribe to the notion that if you can laugh at the shittiest moments in your life,you can transcend them. And if other people can laugh at your awful shit as well, then I guess you can officially call yourself a comedian."In Boston, a college student fears leaving her own room--even to use the toilet. In Pennsylvania, a meek personal assistant finally confronts a perpetually enraged gay spiritual guru. In Texas, a rookie high school teacher deals with her male student's unusually, er, hard personal problem. Sara Benincasa has been that terrified student, that embattled employee, that confused teacher--and so much more. Her hilarious memoir chronicles her attempts to forge a wonderfully weird adulthood in the midst of her lifelong struggle with agoraphobia, depression, and unruly hair. Relatable, unpretentious, and unsentimental,*Agorafabulous!*celebrates eccentricity, resilience, and the power of humor to light up even the darkest corners of our...

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