We are never meeting in real life essays6/22/2023 And a sharp edge!” Irby shows her sharp edge throughout a collection that touches on topics ranging from the potential pros and cons of living in a small town, her employment adventures at an animal hospital, her upbringing with an alcoholic, abusive father and the mother he exploited, her preoccupation with death, and her unpredicted path to lesbian marriage. My funny runs out, my cute runs out, my smart sometimes hiccups, my sexy wakes up with uncontrollable diarrhea. “People are boring and terrible,” she writes. She prefers writing jokes for online consumption rather than interacting with so-called real people in the so-called real world. The second collection of essays by Irby ( Meaty, 2013) explores what it means to be “fat and black.” Though she has an active and diverse sex life, the author seems to prefer staying home with her cat, with whom she’s “trapped in this mutually abusive codependent relationship.” She watches a lot of TV and eats a lot of junk food while watching junk TV. A blogger ( Bitches Gotta Eat) has to laugh to keep from crying-or maybe killing somebody-in this collection of essays from the black, full-figured female perspective.
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