Full name: So Sad Today: Personal Essays

Author: Melissa Broder Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Essays, Memoirs, Short Stories Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781455562725 1455562726

Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings, and which quickly gained a dedicated following. In So Sad Today, Broder delves deeper into the existential themes she explores on Twitter, grappling with sex, death, love, low self-esteem, addiction, and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back. With insights as sharp as her humor, Broder explores--in prose that is both gutsy and beautiful, aggressively colloquial and achingly poetic--questions most of us are afraid to even acknowledge, let alone answer, in order to discover what it really means to be a person in this modern world. Similar books: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen American Like Me by America Ferrera Phoning Home by Jacob M. Appel Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio The Unspeakable by Meghan Daum The Long-Winded Lady by Maeve Brennan What My Mother Gave Me by Elizabeth Benedict A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace SantaLand Diaries by David Sedaris I'd Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel Little Weirds by Jenny Slate All Wound Up by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Writing Home by Alan Bennett Fraud by David Rakoff I Can't Complain by Elinor Lipman The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane My Little Red Book by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff