Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
May 2016 · Sold by Grand Central Publishing
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Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny.
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible -- like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you -- writer and humoristLindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.
From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes; to her struggle to convince herself, and then the world, that fat people have value; to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea.
With inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect, and how to weather hatred, loneliness, harassment, and loss, and walk away laughing. Shrill provocatively dissects what it means to become self-aware the hard way, to go from wanting to be silent and invisible to earning a living defending the silenced in all caps.
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible -- like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you -- writer and humoristLindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.
From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes; to her struggle to convince herself, and then the world, that fat people have value; to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea.
With inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect, and how to weather hatred, loneliness, harassment, and loss, and walk away laughing. Shrill provocatively dissects what it means to become self-aware the hard way, to go from wanting to be silent and invisible to earning a living defending the silenced in all caps.
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4.2
37 reviews
Alexandra Reiner
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October 16, 2019
Good exposé on a woman dealing with the misogyny of a woman in EVERY DAY LIFE. For some reason the body-image-body-hate-self-abnegation hurts the most because at its core hate may look different but it sure as hell feels the same. And there had to be females in Ms. West's life that empathized as well as used her voice to square off with the misogynist culture. Why is it Lindy against the world so much of the book?
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Chloe Stamper
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February 15, 2018
I read it all in one late-night binge and laughed, hard. This book is a blessing. Thank you.
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Teresa Tebo
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January 21, 2018
I bought this without knowing Lindy's body of work. Sharp, insightful, honest and funny. I will follow her anywhere.
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About the author
Lindy West is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the bestselling author of Shrill, a memoir which has been adapted into a Hulu series starring Aidy Bryant, and a forthcoming book entitled The Witches Are Coming. She lives in Seattle.
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