Foolish by Sarah Cooper

Foolish by Sarah Cooper

In this hilariously revealing debut memoir, comedian Sarah Cooper charts her rise from lip-synching in church to lip-synching the president, and all the dad issues she collected along the way.

As the youngest of four in a tight-knit Jamaican family, Cooper cut her teeth in the mean cornfields of suburban Maryland. Soon she became a charmingly neurotic woman trying to break her worst patterns and reclaim her linen closet. From an early obsession with hair bands to her struggle to escape the immigrant-to-basic-bitch pipeline to her use of the Internet as a marriage counselor (after being fired by two real ones) and the curse of her TED Talk vibe, Cooper invites us to share in her triumphs and humiliations as she tries (and fails) to balance her own dreams with the American dream.

With determination and wit, Cooper mines a lifetime of oppressive perfectionism for your laughter and enjoyment, as she moves from tech to comedy, marriage to divorce, smart to foolish, while proving once and for all that being foolish is actually the smartest thing you can do.

Sarah Cooper is a Fellow of Trinity Hall and a College Lecturer in French at the University of Cambridge.

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ISBN 13	9780593473184
ISBN 10	0593473183
Title	Foolish
Author	Sarah Cooper
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2023-10-03
Number of pages	272
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