“Amy’s got your back. She’s in your corner. She’s an honesty bomb. And she’s coming for you.” (Actress Tilda Swinton, Trainwreck costar)
The Emmy Award-winning comedian, actress, writer, and star of Inside Amy Schumer and the acclaimed film Trainwreck has taken the entertainment world by storm with her winning blend of smart, satirical humor. Now Amy Schumer has written a refreshingly candid and uproariously funny collection of (extremely) personal and observational essays.
In The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy mines her past for stories about her teenage years, her family, relationships, and sex and shares the experiences that have shaped who she is – a woman with the courage to bare her soul to stand up for what she believes in, all while making us laugh. Down to earth and relatable, frank and unapologetic, Amy Schumer is one of us: She relies on her sister for advice, still hangs out with her high school pals, and continues to navigate the ever-changing boundaries in love, work, and life.
Ranging from the raucous to the romantic, the heartfelt to the harrowing, this highly entertaining and universally appealing collection is the literary equivalent of a night out with your best friend – an unforgettable and fun adventure that you wish could last forever. Whether she’s experiencing lust at first sight while in the airport security line, sharing her own views on love and marriage, admitting to being an introvert, or discovering her cross-fit instructor’s secret bad habit, Amy Schumer proves to be a bighearted, brave, and thoughtful storyteller that will leave you nodding your head in recognition, laughing out loud, and sobbing uncontrollably – but only because it’s over.
Candid, hilarious, with an important message I gave this autobiography four stars because it is so honest and spares seemingly no detail about even unflattering or unsavory events in Ms. Schumer’s life, all the while remaining very, very funny. Also anyone curious about the process of how to get good as a live performer will like how vividly she evokes the backbreaking and lengthy apprenticeship she had as a novice comedian in order to get as expert as she currently is. A quibble I have is that the writing is a little bland. A more…
Insightful, Vulnerable and Sexual. Not your average book by a celebrity. Before I purchased this book I was not really much of an Amy Schumer fan, I almost didn’t purchase the book after reading negative reviews. After I finished the book, I realized there was more than meets the eye. I very much enjoyed her insight and humor about life. I didn’t find it to be another BS celebrity book where you don’t take anything away from it. You just have to know there is a lot of sexual content. I mean Amy Schumer wrote it after all, not a nun. I am now an Amy Schumer fan and…
Disjointed book (but I’m still a big fan) First, let me say that I am a real fan of Amy’s work and also how she handles her celebrity. I think many could learn from her. I have really mixed feelings about her first book. I went into it really expecting to love it, and I just didn’t. I think for me, the whole thing felt really disjointed. It was part Tina Fey “Bossypants” and part Dennis Miller “The Rants.” I wish she had sort of chosen a direction and stuck to it. It felt jarring to go from reading a heartfelt and…