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Hyperbole And A Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, And Other Things That Happened

by Allie Brosh

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Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. Touching, absurd, and darkly comic, Allie Brosh’s highly anticipated book Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written.…

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"Even if you’re not part of the enormous following her Web comic spawned, you might have seen Allie Brosh’s instantly recognizable, candy-colored drawings posted here and there if you’ve been, y’know, on the Internet. This collection of her work from her hugely popular blog is autobiographical and immensely inventive — her drawings could be called crude if they weren’t so incredibly sophisticated at the same time. Brosh has a knack for the really, truly, giggle-snort funny — but she’s also painfully perceptive, particularly in her descriptions of her struggle with depression, which are so accurate, they are required reading for anyone trying to understand why depression is so much more than being sad."
NPR Books We Love — 2013 · apps.npr.org