Much to Your Chagrin

“A steadily absorbing, delightfully if squeamishly honest memoir, no less comic than it is melancholy, it demonstrates with great effect that to be human is to be sadly mistaken. The real scandal, the real embarrassment, this book beautifully reveals, is discovering what a stranger one is to oneself.” – Phillip Lopate, author of Two Marriages“Much to Your Chagrin is the most unique memoir I’ve ever read…You will read it in one gulp, frantically turning the pages as if your life depends on them (and perhaps it does). Of Suzanne Guillette, you will say, repeatedly, ‘I cannot believe she just admitted that.’ You will say, ‘How does she know exactly what it’s like to be me?’ Until she reaches the finish line, you will cheer wildly with the desperate conviction that her ability to make sense of her own struggles will allow you to make sense of your own. This book is absolutely essential.” – Diana Spechler, author of Who by Fire“Guillette’s choice to write her memoir in the second person is a bold move – but one that pays off in rewarding and unexpected ways. In creating a bit of distance from the reader, she is able to achieve a surprising intimacy.” – Cathy Alter, author of Up for Renewal“This is a delightful, laugh-out-loud ride through some really embarrassing stories, and it’ll make you feel a hundred times better about your own embarrassing stories!” – Touré, author of Never Drank the Kool-Aid“Much To Your Chagrin is…beautifully written and compulsively readable, and it begins with a familiar trope: a pretty, ambitious young woman meets a powerful man and attraction sparks. We all know how the story should end, because we’ve heard it a thousand times, but once the stage is set, Suzie embarks on a much more ambitious project–showing how that familiar romantic comedy scenario actually plays out in real life, in raw and searing detail. She offers us a critique of all the false stories we’ve ever been told about love–but she offers it in the bravest, simplest, and most dangerous way possible: by telling the truth about her own story.” – Carey Wallace, author of The Blind Contessa’s New Machine“Much to Your Chagrin is entertaining and engaging and makes you fervently wish to never be the person who flashes her elderly neighbors or poops on the front seat of her car.” – Venus Zine“Guillette’s book is more than just the story of one woman’s success over a personal crisis, it is a fingerprint of a moment in time and a mirror in which readers, men and women alike, can peer into to see reflections of their own lives.” – PopMatters.com

Suzanne Guillette lives in Manhattan. This is her first book.

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