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Some childhoods are hard. Jason Mulgrew’s was hard and hilarious. In Everything Is Wrong with Me, the blogger behind ‘Everything Is Wrong With Me: 30, Bipolar and Hungry’ turns his upbringing — loud, chaotic, Irish-Catholic, endlessly dysfunctional — into one of the funniest memoirs you’ll read all year.
Raised where money was scarce and drama plentiful, Mulgrew writes with a comedian’s timing and surprising tenderness about the relatives who made him: the larger-than-life parents, the siblings, the family stories that get better with every retelling. Beneath the jokes runs a real thread — about growing up, finding your way out, and learning to laugh at the damage.
In the tradition of the great American humor memoirs, this is a book for anyone who survived a complicated family and lived to tell the tale — ideally while laughing. Honest, irreverent, and unexpectedly moving — a debut that proves the best comedy often grows out of the worst circumstances.
Some childhoods are hard. Jason Mulgrew’s was hard and hilarious. In Everything Is Wrong with Me, the blogger behind the wildly popular “Everything Is Wrong With Me: 30, Bipolar and Hungry” turns his upbringing — loud, chaotic, Irish-Catholic, and endlessly dysfunctional — into one of the funniest memoirs you’ll read all year.
Raised in a household where money was scarce and drama was plentiful, Mulgrew writes with a comedian’s timing and a surprising tenderness about the relatives who made him who he is: the larger-than-life parents, the siblings, the family stories that get better (and more unbelievable) with every retelling. Beneath the jokes runs a real thread — about growing up, finding your way out, and learning to laugh at the damage.
In the tradition of the great American humor memoirs, this is a book for anyone who survived a complicated family and lived to tell the tale — ideally while laughing. Honest, irreverent, and unexpectedly moving — a debut that proves the best comedy often grows out of the worst circumstances.
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