No One Asked for This: Essays

From writer Cazzie David comes a series of acerbic, darkly funny essays about misanthropy, social media, anxiety, relationships, and growing up in a wildly eccentric family.

For Cazzie David, the world is one big trap door leading to death and despair and social phobia. From shame spirals caused by hookups to panic attacks about being alive and everyone else having to be alive too, David chronicles her life's most chaotic moments with wit, bleak humor, and a mega-dose of self-awareness.

In No One Asked For This, David provides readers with a singular but ultimately relatable tour through her mind, as she explores existential anxiety, family dynamics, and the utterly modern dilemma of having your breakup displayed on the Internet. With pitch-black humor resonant of her father, comedy legend Larry David, and topics that speak uniquely to generational malaise, No One Asked For This is the perfect companion for when you don't really want a companion.


Publisher: Dey Street Books
Published: 11/17/2020
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780358197027


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/15/2020 pg. 19
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2020
Shelf Awareness 12/08/2020

About the Author
CAZZIE DAVID is the creator, writer, and star of the critically acclaimed web series Eighty-Sixed. She is a columnist at Graydon Carter's Air Mail and has written for Vanity Fair, the Hollywood Reporter, Glamour, InStyle, and Vogue.