*Now a Netflix series—Season 2 coming soon!*
Stand—up comedian and star of Netflix’s
Michelle Buteau: A Buteau—ful Mind at Radio City Music Hall
and creator and star of
Survival of the Thickest
delivers a collection of “hilarious...bracingly honest” (
Real Simple
) essays in her unique voice, cheeky swagger, and unapologetic frankness that’s “one of the year’s most relatable books” (
Bustle
).
If you’ve watched television or movies in the past couple of years, you’ve seen Michelle Buteau. With scene—stealing roles in
Always Be My Maybe
,
First Wives Club
Someone Great
Russian Doll
, and
Tales of the City
; a reality TV show and breakthrough stand—up specials, including her headlining show
Welcome to Buteaupia
on Netflix; and two podcasts (
Late Night Whenever
and
Adulting
), Michelle’s star is on the rise. You’d be forgiven for thinking the road to success—or adulthood or financial stability or self—acceptance or marriage or motherhood—has been easy, but you’d be wrong.
Now, in
, Michelle reflects on growing up Caribbean, Catholic, and thick in New Jersey, going to college in Miami (where everyone smells like pineapple), her many friendship and dating disasters, working as a newsroom editor during 9/11, getting started in stand—up opening for male strippers, marrying into her husband’s Dutch family, IVF and surrogacy, motherhood, chosen family, and what it feels like to have a full heart, tight jeans, and stardom finally in her grasp.