When You Find Out the World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments

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The author oftheNew York TimesbestsellerEverything Is Perfect When Youre a Liarreturns with a deeper and even funnier new collection of essays about the pleasures and perils of living in Kelly Oxfords head.

Kelly Oxford likes to blow up the internet. Whether it is with the kind of Tweets that leadRolling Stoneto name her one of the Funniest People on Twitter or with pictures of her hilariously adorable family (human and animal) or with something much more serious, like creating the hashtag #NotOkay, where millions of women came together to share their stories of sexual assault, Kelly has a unique, razor-sharp perspective on modern life. As a screen writer, professional sh*t disturber, wife and mother of three, Kelly is about everything but the status quo.

Perfect for anyone who ever wished David Sedaris and Mindy Kaling would just finally write a book together already,When You Find Out the World is Against Youis filled with the biting, wise, and laugh-out-loud insights that have won Kelly legions of fans. Whether shes detailing her obsession as an eleven-year-old with going to camp so she can become a kissing bandit, exploring the bittersweet boredom that so often accompanies parenthood, calling out the insanity of a posse of internet poodle vigilantes, writing bracingly about the anxiety that has plagued her as long as she can remember or taking us to ride shotgun as she stalks her husband on an accidental date with another man,When You Find Out the World Is Against Youis Kelly at her most honest and disarmingly funny best. Her comedic skill, down-to-earth voice, and bulls-eye observations on the absurdity of modern life mean there is nothing quite like seeing the world through Kellys eyes.

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Kelly is part geek, part freak. When You Find Out The World Is Against You shows us ourselves: our sensitivities, our awkward moments, our strange desires. She takes us through summer camp, dating, rape culture, Trump, death . . . Kelly Oxford cest moi. James Franco Two things Im grateful for: how imperfect Kelly Oxford is at life and decision-making, and how terrific she is at writing about what a goddamn mess she is. Patton Oswalt Kelly Oxfords writing is hilarious and fearless. Shes the badass Canadian sister I never had. Mindy Kaling I have worshipped the mind of Kelly Oxford for eons. Kelly Oxfords concise, whip-smart observations feel eerily universal. When You Find Out the World is Against You shows that there is something to be learned from even the most absurd or devastating moments of life. Jill Soloway Kelly Oxford is a beautiful writer. She finds beauty in the mundane and humor in everyday eccentricities. She is our present-day, funny Joan Didion. Gia Coppola

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Kelly Oxford, dubbed "the Queen of Twitter" by Details, started writing at five years old when she penciled "I had a baby" into her Hello Kitty diary, and she hasn't stopped since. She now writes words that companies like Warner Bros., CBS, and NBC have bought for film and television and magazines like GQ have published. You can read more of her words online in places like Twitter (@kellyoxford) and Tumblr (kellyoxford.tumblr.com). Born in Edmonton, Canada, she currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three children, who all wish they weren't in this book.