This is the first I've read of Samantha Irby's writing and it was a little hit or miss for me. But the hits were literally spit-take funny (cracker crumbs everywhere) and the misses were largely a matter of unshared context (I'm sure the mix tape section is fun and fascinating if you're more of a music person than I am) and some good, old-fashioned uptight squeamishness on my part.

Some of the hits: Her reluctance, as a 40-year-old, to leave her house and follow through with plans that seemed reasonable when she made them is basically me at any age. The "Guide to Simple Home Repairs" is a hilarious list of home maintenance questions laced throughout the narrative of Irby's various living arrangements through the years. Her time in Hollywood pitching her own show and writing for Lindy West's "Shrill" is a perfect outsider-insider account.

Overall, it's both refreshingly and brutally honest and very, very funny.

Content Notes: Strong language and very frank discussions of, well, anything. No topic is off limits. The publisher describes it as "smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy" and that isn't just marketing talk.

My thanks to #NetGalley and Vintage/Knopf Doubleday for a digital ARC of #WowNoThankYou.