One Day We'll All Be Dead And None Of This Will Matter: Essays

"Each essay in BuzzFeed writer Scaachi Koul’s collection begins with an email exchange with her father, who is often simultaneously furious and magnanimous (you can see where Koul gets her dry humor). She examines her family in a frank yet tender way, from her parents’ beautiful and dark sides to her hopes and concerns for her niece, nicknamed Raisin. Koul is especially afraid of death and everyone in her life dying (she mentions planning her own funeral and hypothetically dealing with her parents’ estate several times) but she fights through that anxiety, even if it means facing her fears of flying, open water and spiders on a bumpy trip to Southeast Asia."