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Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Bamford, Maria

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralHumorSelf-Help

Publisher Price: $28.99

ISBN10: 1982168560
ISBN13: 9781982168568
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: Sep 5 2023
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
"If you're suffering from holiday related trauma please let Maria Bamford into your life. Not only is she a hilarious MN raised comedian, but her discussion of mental health and experience in a variety of 12 step programs is honest and validating in so many ways. This book made me laugh and cry and feel all the things. I think this book healed me a bit inside and I hope it does that for you as well." --Johanna
 
From weird, scary, ingenious (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, an instant New York Times bestselling, brutally honest, and laugh-out-loud funny (Jennette McCurdy, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems--from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs.

Maria Bamford is a comedian's comedian (an outsider among outsiders) and has forever fought to find a place to belong. From struggling with an eating disorder as a child of the 1980s, to navigating a career in the arts (and medical debt and psychiatric institutionalization), she has tried just about every method possible to not only be a part of the world, but to want to be a part of it.

In Bamford's trademark blend of disarming intimacy and dark whimsy (Publishers Weekly), Sure, I'll Join Your Cultbrings us on a quest to participate in something. With sincerity and transparency, she recounts every anonymous fellowship she has joined (including but not limited to: Debtors Anonymous, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, and Overeaters Anonymous), every hypomanic episode (from worrying about selling out under capitalism to enforcing union rules on her Netflix TV show set to protect her health), and every easy 1-to-3-step recipe for fudge in between.

Packed with Bamford's brilliance, relentless humor, and insatiable instinct for survival (Library Journal), this memoir explores what it means to keep going, and to be a member of society (or any group she's invited to) despite not being very good at it. In turn, she hopes to transform isolating experiences into comedy that will make you feel less alone (without turning into a cult following).

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