People Are Unappealing: Even Me: True Stories of Our Collective Capacity to Irritate and Annoy Book

Born the child of a homo and a hypochondriac (Okay, okay. Her dadâ??s not really a homosexual. He just acts like it. Her mom, however, really is a hypochondriac), Sara Barron never stood a chance of being normal. At age eleven, she starts writing porn (â??He humped me wildly with his wienerâ?). At twelve, she gets mistaken for a trannie. The pre-op sort, no less. By seventeen, she's featured on the Jerry Springer Show. And thatâ??s all before she hits New York. People Are Unappealing tells the strange, funny, and sometimes filthy stories of Sara Barronâ??s twisted suburban upbringing and deranged attempt at taking the Big Apple by stormâ??first as an actor (then a waiter), then a dancer (then a waiter), then a comic (then a waiter). Itâ??s there that she meets the ex-boyfriend turned street clown. The silk pajama-clad poet. The OCD Xanax addict who refuses to have sex wearing any fewer than three condoms. Barron has a knack for attracting the unattractive. People Are Unappealing is her wickedly funny look at the dark side of humanity.Read More