000 03529cam a22003858i 4500
001 on1360319946
003 OCoLC
005 20231020123910.0
008 230624t20232023nyua e 000 0aeng
010 _a 2023029329
040 _aLBSOR
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dOCO
_dOCLCO
_dGO3
_dCTU
_dNFG
019 _a1397071264
020 _a9780593473184
_q(hardcover)
020 _a0593473183
_q(hardcover)
035 _a(OCoLC)1360319946
_z(OCoLC)1397071264
042 _apcc
092 _aCOOPER, S.
_bC778
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aCooper, Sarah
_c(Writer on leadership),
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aFoolish :
_btales of assimilation, determination, and humiliation /
_cSarah Cooper.
246 3 0 _aTales of assimilation, determination, and humiliation
264 1 _a[New York] :
_bDutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
_c[2023]
264 4 _c©2023
300 _a255 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
505 0 _aAssimilation. Jamaicans go to Disneyland, or world, or whatever ; Because I'm the washbelly ; Diary : the Gulf War and the poison concert ; Black enough to be called it, not black enough to say it ; The immigrant-to-basic-bitch pipeline ; Here's an ergonomic chair to protect your body while your soul is dying inside ; This is your brain on ganja ; Sibling rivalry ; My mother's wisdom comes mostly from homegoods décor ; The prodigal daughter -- Determination. I lost my virginity to a guy named brad ; Gather round and let me tell you about match.com ; Pick me, pick me ; CSI : ficus ; Google Docs knew I was getting a divorce before I did ; In the name of the queen (sheets) ; Periwinkle can go fuck itself : my life in colors ; Thank god for my broken uterus ; Red flags you're dating a robot ; Peace out, monogamy island -- Humiliation. The only teacher who ever hated me ; Thy mistress hath played the trumpet in my bed ; My ted talk vibe ; Journal : Noogler to Googler to Xoogler ; Is this funny? ; 10 Tricks to appear smart in meetings ; How to president ; It's so nice to be in hell ; I heard you're killing it ; Coop d'état.
520 _aIn this hilariously revealing debut memoir, comedian Sarah Cooper charts her rise from lip-synching in church to lip-synching the president, and all the dad issues she collected along the way. As the youngest of four in a tight-knit Jamaican family, Cooper cut her teeth in the mean cornfields of suburban Maryland. Soon she became a charmingly neurotic woman trying to break her worst patterns and reclaim her linen closet. From an early obsession with hair bands to her struggle to escape the immigrant-to-basic-bitch pipeline to her use of the Internet as a marriage counselor (after being fired by two real ones) and the curse of her TED Talk vibe, Cooper invites us to share in her triumphs and humiliations as she tries (and fails) to balance her own dreams with the American dream. With determination and wit, Cooper mines a lifetime of oppressive perfectionism for your laughter and enjoyment, as she moves from tech to comedy, marriage to divorce, smart to foolish, while proving once and for all that being foolish is actually the smartest thing you can do--Publisher's description.
600 1 0 _aCooper, Sarah
_c(Writer on leadership)
650 0 _aAfrican American women comedians
_vBiography.
_9318424
650 0 _aJamaican American women
_vBiography.
655 7 _aAutobiographies.
_2lcgft
_9728
994 _aC0
_bNFG
999 _c373647
_d373647