Standard of Excellence by Bruce Pearson And Mary Elledge

Standard of Excellence by Bruce Pearson And Mary Elledge

Koul puts on a breezy and fleetingly filthy sideshow, but when she writes about gender and race she reveals that knife-throwing is her main act. --The New York Times

From the cultural critic and bestselling author of>One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter>comes a poignant, bitingly funny, and unabashedly candid new memoir in essays.

Scaachi Koul's first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the issues of race, body image, love, friendship, and growing up the daughter of immigrants. When the time came to start writing her next book, Scaachi assumed she'd be updating her story with essays about her elaborate four-day wedding, settling down to domestic bliss, and continuing her never-ending arguments with her parents. Instead, the Covid pandemic hit, the world went into lockdown, Scaachi's marriage fell apart, she lost her job, and her mother was diagnosed with cancer.
Sucker Punch is about what happens when the life you thought you'd be living radically changes course, everything you thought you knew about the world and yourself has tilted on its axis, and you have to start forging a new path forward. Scaachi employs her signature humour and fierce intelligence to interrogate her previous belief that fighting is the most effective tool for progress. She examines the fights she's had--with her parents, her ex-husband, her friends, online strangers, and herself--all in an attempt to understand when a fight is worth having, and when it's better to walk away.

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ISBN 13	9780849757945
ISBN 10	0849757940
Title	Standard of Excellence
Author	Bruce Pearson And Mary Elledge
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Publisher	Kjos (Neil A.) Music Co ,U.S.
Year published	2004-01-01
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