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Dear Girls
Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life
240 pages
A raunchy, laugh-out-loud love letter to the next generation that hides surprising tenderness beneath layers of unapologetic filth.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like sitting at a dive bar with your most outrageous, fiercely loyal friend who is determined to tell you the absolute, unvarnished truth about life, sex, and motherhood. The pace is incredibly brisk, propelled by a conversational style that mirrors a high-energy stand-up set. It is unapologetically raunchy and packed with crude humor, yet the atmosphere remains deeply intimate and warm. Beneath the stories of bodily fluids, terrible dates, and the grueling comedy grind lies a surprisingly tender emotional core. It transitions seamlessly from shock-value laughs to genuine, heartfelt reflections on family, Asian American identity, and legacy. This is a perfect read for anyone who craves memoir and life advice that is entirely devoid of pretension and packed with unfiltered, hilarious reality.
- Mood
- energetic
- intimate
- unapologetic
- warm
- Tone
- raunchy
- irreverent
- unfiltered
- hilarious
- heartfelt
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- messy motherhood · Asian American identity · the comedy grind · marriage realities · embracing imperfection
- The writing
- Conversational and punchy, reading exactly like a high-energy, expletive-laden stand-up set delivered by your funniest friend.
- The arc
- Starts with outrageous, boundary-pushing shock humor and gradually reveals a deeply tender, fiercely loving core.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love their life advice served with a heavy dose of explicit humor, bodily fluids, and unapologetic feminist truths.
Content notes
- explicit sexual content
- crude humor
- bodily fluids
- miscarriage
About the book
"In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly with viewers that she became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, working women, and why you never see new-mom comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads. Wong's sharp insights and humor are even more personal in this completely original collection. She shares the wisdom she's learned from her career in comedy and reveals stories from her life off stage, including the brutal single life in New York (e.g., the inevitable confrontation with erectile dysfunction), reconnecting with her roots (and drinking snake blood) in Vietnam, being a wild child growing up in San Francisco, and parenting humiliations. Though addressed to her daughters, Ali Wong's letters are absurdly funny, surprisingly moving, and enlightening (and gross) for all"-- Dust jacket.
Description from Open Library.
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