Happily Ali After: And Other Fairly True Tales
The actress and comedian chronicles her mission of self-improvement--initiated as the result of a particularly inspirational tweet and expanded to include parenting, fitness, relationship, and dieting advice--in a series of comic vignettes.
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<p>The actress, comedian, media darling, and <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author picks up where she left off in <em>Ali in Wonderland</em>, dissecting modern life—and this time, on a mission of self-improvement—in a series of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.</p><p>Moved by a particularly inspirational tweet one day, Ali Wentworth resolves to live by the pithy maxims she discovers in her feeds. What begins as a sort of self-help project quickly turns into something far grander—and increasingly funnier—as the tweets she once viewed with irony become filled with increasing metaphysical importance. And thus begins her “Unhappiness Project.”</p><p>It’s not long before Ali expands her self-improvement quest to include parenting, relationship, fitness (or lack thereof), and dieting advice. The results are painfully (at times literally) clear: when it comes to self-help, sometimes you should leave it to the professionals.</p><p>At once endearing and hilarious, thoughtful and absurd, <em>Happily Ali After</em> is a thoroughly entertaining collection from “the girlfriend you want to have a glass of wine with, the one who makes you laugh because she sees the funny and the absurd in everything” (<em>Huffington Post</em>).</p>
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