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The New York Times bestseller: sharp and hilariously funny advice for growing up female from the Netflix star of Always Be My Maybe
The New York Times bestseller
‘You’ll laugh like a drain’ Stylist
Sharp and hilariously funny advice for growing up female from the Netflix star of Always Be My Maybe
Dear Girls is Ali Wong’s collection of heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters covering everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mum in a male-dominated profession and how she trapped their dad.
She shares the wisdom she’s learned from a life in comedy and reveals stories from her life off stage, including the brutal single life in New York (and the inevitable confrontation with erectile dysfunction), reconnecting with her roots (and drinking snake blood) in Vietnam and parenting war stories. Ali Wong’s letters are absurdly funny, surprisingly moving and enlightening (and gross) for all.
“Sometimes you just need a really entertaining read that’ll make you laugh like a drain. A lot. Ali Wong’s Dear Girls has you covered … Wong transfers her stand-up persona to the page with verve and joy while sending straight-talking letters of wisdom to her two girls”
stylist
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“Knife-sharp … a genuine pleasure”
new York Times
“Hilariously inappropriate. Please write a Dear Girls 2, Ali”
vogue Uk
“Hilarious, brilliant and touching”
Patton Oswalt
”Dear Girls is not so much a real-talk handbook as it is a myth-puncturing manifesto”
vogue
Ali Wong
Ali Wong is a stand-up comedian, writer and actress. She has released two hit Netflix comedy specials – Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife – and starred in the Netflix original film Always Be My Maybe. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.
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“God, I was disgusting!” – Ali Wong on why women’s bodies are the last taboo
“Offstage, she seems softer and more laid-back than her fierce and foul-mouthed standup persona. In the book, she recalls starting out: ‘I was very dirty back then. Even now, I’ll look back on those days and think: “God, you were disgusting.”’ Which is very funny if you have seen any of Wong’s comedy, because you will know how filthy she is now. In Baby Cobra, there are gags about anal sex and vaginal secretions; in Hard Knock Wife, there are jokes about the things she would like to do to their nanny if he was 25, male and ‘not ugly’.”
Ali Wong interviewed in the Guardian about her new book, Dear Girls.
Guardian