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By the acclaimed critic, memoirist, and advice columnist, an impassioned collection tackling our obsession with self-improvement and urging readers to embrace the imperfections of the everydayHeather Havrilesky's writing has been called "whip-smart and profanely funny" (Entertainment Weekly) and "required reading for all humans" (Celeste Ng) . In her work for New York, The Baffler, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic, as well as in "Ask Polly," her advice column for The Cut, she dispenses a singular, cutting wisdom--an ability to inspire, provoke, and put a name to our most insidious cultural delusions.What If This Were Enough? is a mantra and a clarion call. In its chapters--many of them original to the book, others expanded from their initial publication--Havrilesky takes on those cultural forces that shape us.
About the Author
Heather Havrilesky is an essayist and critic who writes New York Magazine's popular Ask Polly advice column. She is the author of What If This Were Enough? (Doubleday, 2018) , How to Be a Person in the World (Doubleday, 2016) and Disaster Preparedness (Riverhead, 2011) . Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Esquire, NPR's All Things Considered, and several anthologies. She lives in Los Angeles with a loud assortment of dependents, most of them non-deductible.
