kmedema 's review for:

The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer

3.0

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First of all: this is not a funny comedian book. Maybe you knew that, maybe you didn't. It is mostly dark, hard, and sad. There are chapters on domestic abuse and gun violence that have hit Amy in very real ways. The domestic abuse chapter was almost too much for me to hear. But she has drawn strength from these things rather than been broken by them. And of course the obligatory "gushing about stand-up comedy" chapter that makes me want to vomit because eight years later I STILL can't stand that world thanks to a bad roommate who was completely obsessed with it. Still, definitely not what I was expecting heading in.

Audiobook is read by Amy, which is the reason I chose this over reading it myself. Not sure I would have finished it had I not been trapped in a car with her narrating it to me.