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Blending the everyday and its sometimes grotesque underside, hallucinatory detail, and stripped-down dialogue, Lisick's descriptions are almost hypnotic with their complex rhythms and cadences. These stories - all of which Beth Lisick uses in performance - imbue the ordinary with unique and unexpected hilarity. 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She is finally able to admit to herself that she's grown tired of embracing the same old set of nagging problems year after year. She has no savings account. Her house feels unorganized and chaotic. She and her husband never hang out together. The last time she exercised regularly was as a member of her high school track team almost twenty years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead of turning to advice from the abundant pool of local life coaches, therapists, and healers readily available on her home turf of northern California, Beth confronts her fears head-on. She consults the multimillion-dollar-earning pros and national experts, not only reading their bestselling books but also attending their seminars and classes. In Chicago, she gets proactive with \u003cem\u003eThe Seven Habits of Highly Effective People\u003c\/em\u003e. In Atlanta, she tries to get a handle on exactly why women are from Venus, and in a highly comedic bout on the high seas of the Caribbean, she gamely sweats to the oldies on a weeklong Cruise to Lose with Richard Simmons. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout this yearlong experiment, Beth tries extremely hard to maintain her wry sense of humor and easygoing nature, even as she starts to fall prey to some of the experts' ideas, ideas she thought she'd spent her whole life rejecting. Beth doesn't think of herself as the typical self-help victim. 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Beth Lisick has made a career of opening her life to her readers in all of its messy, smart hilarity, but this type of story doesn't usually find its way into a memoir. With her trademark humor and sly intelligence, writing in short flashes the way these episodes tend to pop up in memory, Lisick recounts her most embarrassing moments with gusto. From a trick she played on a neighbor thirty years ago to what she accidentally blurted out at last night's dinner party, she explores the bad judgments and free-floating regrets that keep her up at night, and the result is a daring, candid, and wickedly funny collection of embarrassment embraced, the triumph of humor and perspective over everyday mortification. Writer, performer, and independent film actress Beth Lisick is the author of the New York Times best-selling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool and the gonzo self-help manifesto Helping Me Help Myself.  Praise for Yokohama Threeway:  \"The ultimate joyride for those of us who enjoy cringe-worthy embarrassment, genuine pathos, and an overdosing amount of schadenfreude.\"--Michael Ian Black  \"This book is fucking great.\"--Kathleen Hanna, of Bikini Kill and The Julie Ruin  \"A strangely touching and engaging portrait of the artist as a young screwup.\"--Booklist  \"Yokohama Threeway blends the funny and the painful into an elixir more closely resembling cough medicine than soda pop--a little bitter, made up of strange ingredients, not real pretty, but necessary if you want to get better. In the end, you are happy you took it, even if it leaves a funky aftertaste.\"--World Literature Today  \"Speaking as someone who hates everything, I love this book.\"--James Greer, musician \u0026amp; author of The Failure  \"Hilarious, heartbreaking, compassionate, pitch perfect, utterly original.\" --Joyce Maynard, author of After Her and Labor Day  \"A laugh-out-loud series of short, revelatory confessions propelled by curiosity and an acute desire to experience the world. It is not now and perhaps never will be quite in vogue for people to share their shames, but Lisick does it with aplomb and even exuberance.\"--Evan Karp, SF Weekly \"Beth Lisick's new essay collection Yokohama Threeway made me laugh out loud more than anything else I have read all year, she is a master at sharing her life experiences with self-deprecating yet honest humor.\"--David Gutowski, Largehearted Boy  \"Beth Lisick, divulges the most embarrassing moments in a series of short essays dripping with wicked humor.\"--7x7 Magazine","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49909538455825,"sku":"CIN0872866254G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009226113297,"sku":"NIN9780872866256","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51324524331281,"sku":"CIN0872866254VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52821083554065,"sku":"NLS9780872866256","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872866254.jpg?v=1750980604"},{"product_id":"everybody-into-the-pool-true-tales-book-beth-lisick-9780060834265","title":"Everybody Into The Pool: True Tales","description":"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeth Lisick started out as a homecoming princess with a Crisco-aided tan and a bad perm. 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