Review 'If Melissa Broder weren t so f---ing funny I would have wept through this entire book.' --Lena Dunham'So Sad Today is a desperately honest collection of essays, the kind that make you cringe as you eagerly, shamelessly consume them. Melissa Broder lays herself bare but she does so with strength, savvy, and style. Above all, these essays are sad and uncomfortable and their own kind of gorgeous. They reveal so much about what it is to live in this world, right now.' --Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist'What a decadent, hilarious, important, devastating book this is. So Sad Today will explode on impact in your mind.' --Jami Attenberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Middlesteins and Saint Mazie About the Author Melissa Broder is the author of four collections of poems, including the forthcoming Last Sext (Tin House, 2016). Her poems have appeared in POETRY, Guernica, and The Iowa Review, among other journals. She lives in Venice, California.
P**S
Full of dark humour and captivating writing!
What is So Sad Today about? The short answer is that it’s a collection of personal essays about living with anxiety and depression. But it is so much more than that.With these essays Melissa Broder explores everything from addiction to eating disorders to ethical non-monogamy and caring for her ill husband. Broder’s humour is dark, something followers of her @sosadtoday Twitter account will be familiar with, and her writing captivating. I read So Sad Today in one sitting, underlining passages as I went.
B**S
Prepare for something special!
Truly one of the greatest books I have ever read. Melissa takes us, no, drags us (willingly) through the moments in her life and we ride the ups and downs and the sideways as she tackles subjects such as depression, sex, love, social media and family. Completely open and honest, sometimes brutally so, Melissa writes with humour, darkness and wit in such a way that hooks you, shocks you but also soothes you. Utterly brilliant read.
S**Y
surprised, but great read.
so, the book ended up being a lot different from what i expected it to be. I thought it was going to be more mental health based, more essays about depression etc, like so sad today's tweets. but nevertheless, it was interesting to read. The author has really been up to a lot, and i just LOVE her writing style. Definitely my type of humour. Great read.
M**T
Had me in stitches
I have never related so much to a book in my life. It is so brutally honest but also humorous at the same time. A brilliant read.
O**E
... for a gift for four different people now cannot recommend enough. Great read
Bought for a gift for four different people now cannot recommend enough. Great read. Very witty and wonderfully weird
M**L
AMAZING BOOK
Amazing read and very relatable. Almost like she went into my head and wrote my thoughts!
L**H
Book dirty
Book arrived covered in a sticky thick black /blue substance... Maybe ink?
E**T
Five Stars
Great read
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