I Feel Bad: All Day. Every Day. About Everything. - Hardcover

Auslander, Orli

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0735215111 ISBN 13: 9780735215115

Publisher: Blue Rider Press, 2017

Synopsis

The inspiration for a television comedy from Executive Producer Amy Poehler, I Feel Bad is out now on NBC.

“Auslander’s idiosyncratic drawing style, with loopy lines that appear to unravel as though they’re loosely crocheted, is anxiety personified... [I Feel Bad] belongs to the brand of humor whose main gag is that mothers are human... [Auslander] goes dark and specific, transcending the theme.”—Anya Ulinich, The New York Times Book Review

Roz Chast meets Allie Brosh in this hilarious, unfiltered, and beautifully illustrated look at the infinite number of reasons the author experiences guilt, shame, regret and self-reproach in her daily life, and that maybe—just maybe—some of us can relate to as well.
 
In a series of 100 illustrations with accompanying text, Orli Auslander has captured a mood and emotional ambivalence that will be all too familiar for readers: trying to be the best wife, mother, and friend she can be, while simultaneously feeling shitty about virtually everything she does. Confronting her daily experience with dark humor and brilliant and brutal honesty, she shows us how being an overindulgent mother makes her feel as terrible as the times when she can't stand the sight of her kids; how saying yes to the wrong experiences and no to the right requests is equally bad; how her Jewish heritage complicates her relationships with her overly religious family and irreligious children; and how having a vagina is the ultimate inescapable struggle. With a distinctive, textured ink drawing style which brings to mind a female Robert Crumb and a neurotic Edward Gorey, I Feel Bad is a book that readers will buy for themselves and for a best friend, and where every reader will find the precise moment that Auslander voiced their own deepest anxiety in her poignant and hilarious illustrations.

About this title

About the Author

Orli Auslander grew up in London and worked as a milliner and radio DJ in New York City before devoting herself full-time to creating art. Her work has been shown in the US, England and Spain, and was recently featured on the Showtime series Happyish. She is married to the author Shalom Auslander and lives with her family in upstate New York.

Review

“Auslander’s idiosyncratic drawing style, with loopy lines that appear to unravel as though they’re loosely crocheted, is anxiety personified... [I Feel Bad] belongs to the brand of humor whose main gag is that mothers are human... [Auslander] goes dark and specific, transcending the theme.”
—Anya Ulinich, The New York Times Book Review
 
“Auslander, an artist and writer, catalogs the 100 ways she experiences remorse...Each numbered confessional statement is illustrated with a line drawing, rough in style but with sharp humor. She’s a dark Roz Chast.”
—Sandee Brawarsky, Jewish Week

“Orli Auslander's wry humor is observant and lacerating and spares no one, least of all herself. I Feel Bad made me feel...not good, exactly, but deeply, uncannily understood.”
—Emily Gould, author of Friendship

“I Feel Bad is less expensive than a shrink, and more addictive than anti-depressants. I just love this book.”
—Marisa Acocella Marchetto, author of Ann Tenna and Cancer Vixen

“I Feel Bad made me laugh, sometimes through my tears. Poignant and provocative, it hits close to home, cuts deep, and it is funny because it's true. Orli Auslander’s brave confessions, and her uncanny ability to find humor in some dark places, will help us all to feel more normal.”
—Julie Holland, M.D., author of Moody Bitches
 
“Orli Auslander’s I Feel Bad is a savory sex toy of the psyche for those of us who will never be enough for ourselves.”
—Melissa Broder, author of So Sad Today

About this edition

• Publisher: Blue Rider Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0735215111
• ISBN 13: 9780735215115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208