A review by vgmsonnet
Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else by Maeve Higgins

2.0

I think the blurbs definitely oversold the humor of this essay collection. While some of Higgins’ observations were quiet-chuckle (as opposed to laugh out loud) funny or thoughtful, her essays and overall tone were not cohesive.

The last third felt especially melancholy...which maybe would have been okay, because the writing wasn’t bad...but it felt depressing and wrong for a book billed as “a cross between Tina Fey and Dave Sedaris’s work.”