by Kelly Oxford
First published 2013
Kelly Oxford takes readers through the ridiculous moments that shaped her life. She starts as a young entrepreneur staging bootleg plays for kindergarteners, then moves through a series of increasingly bizarre episodes. Oxford watches monkeys pleasure themselves at the zoo. She vomits on delivery drivers bringing Chinese takeout. She develops an elaborate plan to encounter Leonardo DiCaprio in person. Each chapter reveals another layer of Oxford's chaotic existence, from childhood schemes to adult mishaps. The stories pile up like a collection of perfectly timed disasters, each one more outrageous than the last. Oxford finds humor in her most mortifying experiences and discovers that the gap between ambition and reality creates the best material for storytelling.
Genres: humor, autobiography, comedy, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: chaotic, found-family, unreliable-narrator
Period: Childhood, Adulthood
317 pages · Hardcover · It Books