So Sad Today

Brilliant. -- Charlotte Cripps * Independent * If Melissa Broder werent so fucking funny I would have wept through this entire book. * Lena Dunham * So Sad Today is desperately honest Melissa Broder lays herself bare but she does so with strength, savvy, and style. Sad and uncomfortable and its own kind of gorgeous. Reveals so much about what it is to live in this world, right now. -- Roxane Gay, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Bad Feminist</i> An utterly bewitching book and a thrillingly tangible account of what it is to be a human being, right here, right now. I loved it. So many staggering and difficult observations. So many beautiful turns of phrase. There aren't many writers who can stare into the abyss and report back with humour, panache, and a rich, gutsy spirit. Melissa Broder can. It's a book I'm going to read again, and talk about, and pass on. * Emma Jane Unsworth, author of <i>Animals</i> * If symptoms could write, they would sound a lot like Melissa Broders So Sad Today. Broder's angst is existential and pathological and filled with as many holes as there are things to fill it with. An insight into the perverse persistence of hope and humanity, even in the age of clickbait and online individualism. -- Dr Nina Power, the author of <i>One-Dimensional Woman</i> What a decadent, hilarious, important, devastating book this is. So Sad Today will explode on impact in your mind. -- Jami Attenberg, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Middlesteins</i> and <i>Saint Mazie</i> With irreverence and wit, Melissa Broder confronts the most hidden and grotesque parts of herself. Reading her, it seems that we're all fucked-up, but it's because of this that we connect with each other, fall in love, find contentment, and maybe even a little happiness. -- Sarah Gerard, author of <i>Binary Star</i> Extravagantly intimate Theres a bleak beauty in the way Broder articulates her lowest moments. * Bookforum * 'Melissa Broder: as raw as an open vein.' -- Molly Crabapple, author of <i>Drawing Blood</i> From the moment I started this book, I couldnt put it down Melissa Broder GETS IT. This book takes the side effects of mental illness and makes them funny ... Anyone that is battling with depression, anxiety, existential dread/crises, or just anyone who has a brain should read this book. * Bethany Cosentino of <i>Best Coast</i> * Irreverent, ballsy, impossible to put down. With courage and humour, Broder shows us that the underbelly of self-awareness is the existential sads. * Courtney Maum, author of <i>I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You</i> * Broder embarks on an earnest, sophisticated inquiry into the roots and expressions of her own sadness ... [Her] deeply confessional writing brings disarming humour and self-scrutiny to secrets that include embarrassing sexual fantasies and her habit of eating a whole pint of diet ice cream with six packets of Equal poured into it ... [The] central insight is clear: it is okay to be sad, and our problems cant be reduced to a single diagnosis. * Publishers Weekly * Broder fully embraces the peaks and valleys of her emotional landscape Vividly rendered and outspokenly delivered Compulsively readable. * Kirkus * At once devastating and delightful, this deeply personal collection of essays is as raw as it is funny. * Cosmopolitan US * Broders essays often left me with a sharp sense of feminine recognition. I would read her accounts of heartbreak, sexual dissatisfaction, and alienation and think, Same * NewYorker.com * Broder writes with the kind of honesty that can make you cringe and laugh, and then catch your breath, brought up short by a kind of existenti

Melissa Broder is a poet who has published four collections of poetry. She is also the creator of the @sosadtoday Twitter persona, which has amassed over 500,000 loyal followers worldwide for its short, sharp, sometimes shocking barbs. She used to work in publishing in New York, and now lives and works in California.