{"product_id":"9781984819802","title":"Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER • Multi-award-winning Hannah Gadsby broke comedy with their show \u003ci\u003eNanette\u003c\/i\u003e. In this “enthralling” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) memoir, they take us through the defining moments in their life and their powerful decision to tell the truth—no matter the cost.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon’t miss Hannah Gadsby’s \u003ci\u003eSomething Special, \u003c\/i\u003enow streaming!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Hannah is a Promethean force, a revolutionary talent. This hilarious, touching, and sometimes tragic book is all about where their fires were lit.”—Emma Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:\u003ci\u003e PopSugar, Vulture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself,” Hannah Gadsby declared in their show \u003ci\u003eNanette,\u003c\/i\u003e a scorching critique of the way society conducts public debates about marginalized communities. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGadsby grew up as the youngest of five children in Tasmania, where homosexuality was illegal until 1997. After moving to mainland Australia and receiving a degree in art history, they found themselves adrift, working itinerant jobs and enduring years of isolation punctuated by homophobic and sexual violence. When Gadsby was twenty-seven, a friend encouraged them to enter a stand-up competition. They won, and so began their career in comedy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGadsby became well known for their self-disparaging humor, but in 2015, as Australia debated the legality of same-sex marriage, they started to question this mode of storytelling, beginning to work on a show that would transform their career and would become “the most-talked-about, written-about, shared-about comedy act in years” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarrowing and hilarious, \u003ci\u003eTen Steps to Nanette\u003c\/i\u003e traces Gadsby’s growth as a queer person, their ever-evolving relationship with comedy, and their struggle with late-in-life diagnoses of autism and ADHD, finally arriving at the backbone of \u003ci\u003eNanette:\u003c\/i\u003e the renouncement of self-deprecation, the rejection of misogyny, and the moral significance of truth-telling.","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42371044343869,"sku":"9781984819802","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781984819802_p0.jpg?v=1771589988","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781984819802","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}