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

2.0

Higgins has delivered less of a memoir and more of a desperate plea to be liked. Her jokes are all self-deprecating, her stories framed to make her appear helpless and likable, and her grand sweeping monologues on Irish history and the state of the world are wildly out of place in her otherwise ramshackle memoir and seem to exist only to make her appear knowledgeable (if I'm being charitable) or fill space because her life isn't that interesting (if I'm not). I used to really enjoy Higgins on the StarTalk podcast, but I'm not even sure who I could recommend this for.