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These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the presidency.
In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics that will in no way unsettle your worldview.
In essays both new and adapted from her viral Washington Post columns, Petri reports that the Trump administration is as competent as it is uncorrupted, white supremacy has never been less rampant, and men have been silenced for too long. The "woman card" is a powerful card to play! Q-Anon makes perfect sense! This Panglossian venture into our swampy present offers a virtuosic first draft of history—a parody as surreal and deranged as the Trump administration itself.
Written with devastating wit that reveals a persistent, perhaps manic optimism about her benighted country, Petri's essays have become iconic expressions of rage and anger, read and liked and shared by hundreds of thousands of people. Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why shows why she has emerged as the preeminent political satirist of her generation.
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“Narrator Rebecca Gibel offers a humorous performance of this collection of satirical essays…[with a] crisp and understated yet energetic voice…Full of sharp humor and horrified dismay, Petri’s powerful words are enhanced by Gibel’s deadpan, reassuring delivery.”
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“[Petri is] a fresh and prolific voice, someone who [is] able to make the painful reality of our current sociopolitical dumpster fire not just very, very funny, but stingingly poignant.”
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“Brilliant and wry…Petri hilariously roasts the last five years in American culture…A stress-reducing belly laugh, and assurance that creative writing’s role in interpreting culture hasn’t been lost in these uncertain times.”
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“[A] superb and stinging collection of new and previously published pieces…Acidic and spot-on, Petri’s work captures the surreal quality of Trump’s tenure as perhaps no other book has.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
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An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
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About Alexandra Petri
Alexandra Petri is an American humorist and newspaper columnist at the Washington Post.
About Rebecca Gibel
Rebecca Gibel is an award-winning stage, television, and voice actress. The narrator of over fifty audiobooks, Rebecca is facile in a wide variety of genres. Rebecca has worked across the country at theaters such as Trinity Rep, Cleveland Play House, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Intiman Theatre, and the Arden Theatre Company. She holds a BA from the College of William & Mary and an MFA in acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep.