Adult Braces

“West’s relatable and kind book is sure to leave readers with a newfound openness toward their own hearts, minds, and bodies.”–Booklist, STARRED REVIEW
“Lindy West is best known for her humor and sharp wit, and Adult Braces has much of both, but it also offers a lovely, unexpected sweetness.”
–BookPage, STARRED REVIEW
“West blends her signature sharp wit with endearing vulnerability in this luminous memoir… The result is a madcap, rewarding journey that demystifies the unsexy work of self-actualization.”–Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
“Lindy West’s funniest, fiercest, tenderest excavation yet–a road trip through rock bottom, revelation, and the wild relief of reimagining what a life can hold. Every chapter is a gut punch wrapped in a cackle. I didn’t read this book so much as inhale it, and by the end I felt braced, bolstered, cracked open, and stitched back together.”–Suleika Jaouad, author of The Book of Alchemy and Between Two Kingdoms
“Amid the humor [in Adult Braces] are moments of great insight, many clearly born of keeping a careful eye out… A well-realized, candid memoir that reveals an unconventional approach to life.”–Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW
“Lindy’s writing is so generous, I feel like she’s handing over her entire heart and inviting me to romp around in her ventricles. Nobody is funnier and nobody can describe their own foibles with more clarity. I’d shove this book into the hands of anyone else who could use a laugh on their way to learning to love themselves a little more.”–Lisa Hanawalt, creator of Tuca & Bertie
“A memoir more tender, hilarious, disarming, tear-inducing, complicated, human, and unf*ckwithably real than I expected. And this is Lindy West, so let’s be honest – I was expecting a lot.”–Angela Garbes, bestselling author of Essential Labor
“Lindy is doing the kind of naked self-examination that most people are too chickenshit to do even under the guidance of a trained therapist, and somehow also manages to make it hilarious? All killer, no filler.”–Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author of Quietly Hostile
PRAISE FOR SHIT, ACTUALLY

“Sidesplittingly funny.”–Seattle Times

“Both sharp-toothed and fluid….To see so much of West’s writing in one place is to appreciate her range. She can eviscerate the status quo with raunchy humor….She can attack entrenched sexism with skilled polemic….And she can leave both of those modes behind to write poignantly about growing up, losing her father, and falling in love….West is propulsively entertaining.”–Slate

“Searingly smart… [with an] overarching tone of swashbuckling courage: West knows what she wants to say, and she really doesn’t care what you think… a stirring manifesto for honesty… and an exhortation to give a damn.”–LA Times

Lindy West is the author of three books: the New York Times bestselling memoir Shrill, as well as the essay collections The Witches Are Coming and Shit, Actually.

Lindy is a former contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and her work has appeared in This American Life, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vulture, Jezebel, and others. She is the co-host of the comedy podcast Text Me Back and the author of the e-mail newsletter Butt News.

Lindy was a writer and executive producer on Shrill, the Hulu comedy adapted from her memoir, and she co-wrote and produced the independent feature film Thin Skin. She lives on the Olympic Peninsula in rural Washington state.

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