Scaachi Koul

Sucker Punch (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"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 Named by Vulture and Literary Hub as one of 2025's Most Anticipated Releases Named one of Electric Literature's '48 Books by Women of Color to Read in 2025' 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Canada
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781039056138
• Artikelnr.: 70875812

Autorenporträt

SCAACHI KOUL is a senior writer for Slate and a co-host of the Ambie Award-winning podcast Scamfluencers. She co-hosted the Emmy-nominated Netflix series Follow This, and her writing has appeared on This American Life and in The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and The Cut. You can also find her in documentaries like Quiet On Set and Pretty Baby. Her bestselling first book, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, was a New York Times Editors' Choice, a Globe and Mail best book of 2017, and a finalist for The Leacock Medal for Humour and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. You can follow her on Instagram or on her Substack, Hater Nation. Originally from Calgary, she lives in Brooklyn, NY.