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Foolish, October 2023
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Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation
Dutton
October 2023
On Sale: October 3, 2023
288 pages
ISBN: 0593473183
EAN: 9780593473184
Kindle: B0BRMG359C
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A painfully revealing and hilariously honest debut memoir that chronicles Sarah Cooper’s rise from lip-synching in church to lip-synching to the president of the United States.
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.
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