Life Will Be the Death of Me
. . . and you too!
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4.6 • 1K Ratings
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Publisher Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This will be one of your favorite books of all time. Through her intensely vulnerable, honest, and hilarious reflections, Chelsea shows us more than just her insides. She shows us ourselves.”—Amy Schumer
Don’t miss Chelsea Handler’s new Netflix stand-up special, Revolution, now streaming!
In the wake of President Donald Trump’s election, feeling that her country—her life—has become unrecognizable, Chelsea Handler has an awakening. Fed up with the privileged bubble she’s lived in, she decides it’s time to make some changes.
She embarks on a year of self-sufficiency and goes into therapy, prepared to do the heavy lifting required to make sense of a childhood that ended abruptly with the death of her brother. She meets her match in an earnest, nerdy shrink who dissects her anger and gets her to confront her fear of intimacy. Out in the world, she channels her outrage into social action and finds her voice as an advocate for change. With the love and support of an eccentric cast of friends, assistants, family members (alive and dead), and a pair of emotionally withholding rescue dogs, Chelsea digs deep into the trauma that shaped her inimitable worldview and unearths some glittering truths that light up the road ahead.
Thrillingly honest and insightful, Chelsea Handler’s darkly comic memoir is also a clever and sly work of inspiration that gets us to ask ourselves what really matters in our own lives.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Chelsea Handler’s bold, irreverent honesty always slays us, but Life Will Be the Death of Me brings her candor to inspiring new heights. Hilarious and deeply personal, Handler’s memoir recounts how, at the pinnacle of her success, the comedian made an unexpected choice: to spend time becoming a better person. She describes her year of self-discovery, an incredible ride that included everything from therapy to experiments with ayahuasca. Handler also bravely addresses childhood traumas like her older brother’s tragic death. Through it all, Handler is fiercely witty, but for the first time, she’s something else, too: vulnerable.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Amusingly offbeat and told with the biting sarcasm expected of the TV personality, Handler's sixth book (after Uganda Be Kidding Me) packs a surprising amount of emotion and introspection. After a somewhat shaky start that amounts to an extensive admission of her attraction to special counsel Robert Mueller, Handler quickly dives into the meat of the memoir with a detailed and passionately wrought account of her therapy sessions with neuropsychiatrist Dan Siegel. Through dialogue, Handler shares her struggles to complete menial tasks, her contentious relationship with her father, her inability to empathize ("I never stop showing up , but I don't put myself in their shoes"), and the profound impact her brother's accidental death had on her when she was young. The long stretches of self-reflection become dense at times, but are punctuated by lighter excursions in which Handler talks about her dogs ("I am someone who knows that loving a dog makes you a kinder and fuller person"). These insights provide much needed moments of lightness in an otherwise sobering narrative of how Handler came to peace with her complicated relationship with vulnerability. Fans of the comedian will appreciate her candid and sincere introspection.
Customer Reviews
Excellent and Helpful
When I decided to read this book I was expecting to laugh, I was not expecting to find support for my current journey of self discovery.
CH manages to keep the mood light and comedic while also talking about painful parts of her life and her journey of self discovery.
I recommend this book to anyone that enjoys good comedy and anyone that needs a little nudge of support when it comes to their own journey of self discovery.
Another excellent book
Picked this up expecting to like it and ended up loving it.
Life will be the death of me
Every book I read of hers I think it’s my favorite until I read the next. I never wanted this book to end, I feel like I actually grew as a person reading that book, I laughed, I cried, laughed some more. It was everything my soul needed