{"product_id":"save-yourself-9781538701362","title":"Save Yourself","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis \"hilarious and honest\" bestselling memoir from a rising comedy star tackles issues of gender, sexuality, feminism, and the Catholic childhood that prepared her for a career as an outspoken lesbian comedian (Abby Wambach).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eCameron Esposito wanted to be a priest and ended up a stand-up comic. Now she would like to tell the whole queer as hell story. Her story. Not the sidebar to a straight person's rebirth-she doesn't give a makeover or plan a wedding or get a couple back together. This isn't a queer tragedy. She doesn't die at the end of this book, having finally decided to kiss the girl. It's the sexy, honest, bumpy, and triumphant dyke's tale her younger, wasn't-allowed-to-watch-Ellen self needed to read. Because there was a long time when she thought she wouldn't make it. Not as a comic, but as a human. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e SAVE YOURSELF is full of funny and insightful recollections about everything from coming out (at a Catholic college where sexual orientation wasn't in the nondiscrimination policy) to how joining the circus can help you become a better comic (so much nudity) to accepting yourself for who you are-even if you're, say, a bowl cut-sporting, bespectacled, gender-nonconforming child with an eye patch (which Cameron was). Packed with heart, humor, and cringeworthy stories anyone who has gone through puberty, fallen in love, started a career, or had period sex in Rome can relate to, Cameron's memoir is for that timid, fenced-in kid in all of us-and the fearless stand-up yearning to break free. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eINDIE BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSEATTLE TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF \u003ci\u003eBUSTLE\u003c\/i\u003e'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF MARCH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCameron Esposito is a Los Angeles-based comic, actor, and writer. Cameron's career has spanned everything from big-budget films to Sundance indies to animation. She costarred in and cocreated the much-lauded Take My Wife, now on Starz, has written for the New York Times, and has appeared as herself on TV, podcasts, and web series alike. Cameron hosts a popular interview podcast, Queery with Cameron Esposito, and her recent hit comedy special, Rape Jokes, raised almost $100,000 for rape crisis intervention.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50660834771218,"sku":"9781538701362","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0e303299-bbc8-4a18-a55d-a131fdfa4906.jpg?v=1733477249","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/save-yourself-9781538701362","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}