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Praise for SHRILL by Lindy West

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

NPR EsquireNewsweekLos Angeles Times

Read Wests ferociously funny book and youll be shouting her praises.

People

Stitch-inducing and searingly honest West takes readers through her journey from a self-effacing child working to keep her body and voice small to an unapologetic, fat-positive feminist, skewering the status quo one keyboard stroke at a time.

USA Today

Lindy West is the troll-fighting feminist warrior youve been waiting for Shrill treats feminism, fatness, and social change with rigorous attention without losing any of Wests signature humor.

Los Angeles Times

[West is] one of the most distinctive voices advancing feminist politics through humor With patience, humor, and a wildly generous attitude toward her audience [West] meets readers at their point of prejudice so that she may, with little visible effort, shepherd them toward a more humane point of view.

The New York Times Book Review

[B]eautiful, joyful writing West defies clichs both by being persistently hilarious and deeply loving.

Washington Post

Hilarious, biting, and wise.

Huffington Post

Lindy Wests memoir is a witty and cathartic take on toxic misogyny and fat shaming. She comes to accept her body just as Internet trolls congregate en masse to try to rip this new confidence from her, but shes rearing to fight back In Shrill, West is our fat, ferocious, and funny avenging angel.

NPR, Best Books of 2016

Reading Wests book is like taking a master class in inclusivity and cultural criticism, as taught by one of the funniest feminists alive today.

Refinery29

An emotional roller coaster. One moment youre snorting from laughter, trying to avoid all the weird looks youre getting on the train. The next youre silently absorbing a larger truth neatly packaged into the perfect sentence you didnt expect to read.

Mother Jones

With her clear-eyed insights into modern culture and her confidence in her own intelligence and personal worth, West appeals to the humanity of even the most parents basement-dwelling, misogynistic, and casually hateful of trolls.

Esquire, Best Books of 2016

[Wests] writing is sharp, smart, hilarious, relatable, insightful, and memorable. She tackles serious and personal subjectslike being fat, getting an abortion, feeling lonely, or dealing with harassment onlineand is just as capable of eliciting tears as laughter I dare you to pick up a copy.

Newsweek, Best Books of 2016

Its hard to discuss SHRILL without being effusive. Its hard to write about it without offering gratitude, and pullquotes such as this is the best and most important book Ive read all year. But its certainly no exaggeration to say were all very lucky to live in a world where Lindy West exists When she writes I hope I helped, you want to enthusiastically respond, more than you can ever know.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Poignant, hilarious, and contemplative.

Cosmopolitan

One of the most impressive aspects of this book is the level of nuance, self-reflection, and humanity that West displays in her analysis of her own writing and her relationships with others Its the best kind of memoir, and it shows that Lindy West still has a lot more to sayand that we should all keep listening.

Bitch Media

West is utterly candid and totally hilarious as funny as she is incisive.

Vogue

With Shrill, West cements her reputation as a woman unafraid to comfort (and confound) her critics [Shrill] illustrates just how deeply sexism pervades our society while laughing at the absurdities that sexism somehow normalizes.

Elle

Lindy West can take almost any topic and write about it in a way that is smart, funny, warm, and unique.

Bustle

West is candid and funny, unafraid to criticize rape jokes or explain how airlines discriminate against fat people, and her fearlessness has made her one of the most notable voices on the Internet.

Flavorwire

Both sharp-toothed and fluid West is propulsively entertaining.

Slate

Lindy West did not set out to be a feminist warrior against the forces that wish to silence and hurt women for doing things that men take for granted Someone has to fight the misogynists, after all, and West is well-situated for the front lines, lacing her blunt sense of humor with a surprising amount of nuanced empathy, even for those out there who are the ugliest to women.

Salon

Lindy West is one of the Great Ladies of the Feminist Internet 250 pages of pure hilariousness.

Feministing

Incredible and insightful What West ultimately strives for is to incrementally make those small changes that can lead to something so much bigger and better for us all.

Amy Poehlers Smart Girls

[West is] warm and cutting, vulnerable and funny in equal measures; her sense of self makes you yourself feel seen.

BuzzFeed

Hey reader! I thought Id read enough in this lifetime about peoples childhoods and feelings and such and Id never want to do it again. But Lindy West is such a totally entertaining and original writer she kind of blew that thought out of my head halfway into the first chapter. I dare you to feel differently.

Ira Glass, This American Life

You have to be careful about what you read when youre writing, or you can end up in total despair, thinking, This is what I wanted to say, only she got there first and said it better.

Jennifer Weiner, number one New York Times bestselling author of Good in Bed and The Littlest Bigfoot

The surge of love and joy I felt while crylaughing through this book almost made my cold dead heart explode. Lindy is so smart and so funny that it almost hurts my little jealous-ass feelings. She is my most favorite writer ever.

Samantha Irby, author of Meaty: Essays

It made me hurt, both from laughing and crying. Required reading if you are a feminist. Recommended reading if you arent.

Jenny Lawson, number one bestselling author of Lets Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) and Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

Its literally the new Bible.

Caitlin Moran, best-selling author of How to Be a Woman

Theres a reason Lindy West is such a beloved writer: she gets to the heart of impossible issues with humor and grace. West will have you cringing, laughing, and crying, all within one page. Shrill is a must-read for all women.

Jessica Valenti, author of Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness and Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Womans Guide to Why Feminism Matters

Also by LINDY WEST

Shrill: Notes from A Loud Woman

First published in Australia and New Zealand by Allen & Unwin in 2019

First published in the United States in 2019 by Hachette Books, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

Copyright Lindy West 2019

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. The Australian Copyright Act 1968 (the Act) allows a maximum of one chapter or 10 per cent of this book, whichever is the greater, to be photocopied by any educational institution for its educational purposes provided that the educational institution (or body that administers it) has given a remuneration notice to the Copyright Agency (Australia) under the Act.