Survival of the Thickest: Essays in Bloomington, MN

*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.