A review by cheesy_gordita_grack
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

I can't remember the last time I read a book that was so sad and so funny. As we slowly emerge on the other end of the global pandemic, the word "resilience" gets thrown around a lot, but that's the word I kept thinking of as I read this book. Irby has SEEN some shit, man. And she has a lot of trauma and mental health issues and quirks because of what she's been through—but she's still out there, trying to exist in the world, being funny as hell and living and loving. And I just really needed to read a book about that struggle, because it's one that me and a lot of other people are going through right now. It was important to see that you can be OK after everything.

Some parts resonated with me more than others, but the parts that did . . . I'm not likely to forget. Especially the sections on Irby's dad, or the one (I can't remember the chapter title now) where she talks about how she learned early on that love = chaos and pain and pining.
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