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Overview

“I subscribe to the notion that if you can laugh at the shittiest moments in your life, you can transcend them. And if other people can laugh at your awful shit as well, then I guess you can officially call yourself a comedian.”

In Boston, a college student fears leaving her own room—even to use the toilet. In Pennsylvania, a meek personal assistant finally confronts a perpetually enraged gay spiritual guru. In Texas, a rookie high school teacher deals with her male student’s unusually, er, hard personal problem. Sara Benincasa has been that terrified student, that embattled employee, that confused teacher—and so much more. Her hilarious memoir chronicles her attempts to forge a wonderfully weird adulthood in the midst of her lifelong struggle with agoraphobia, depression, and unruly hair.

Relatable, unpretentious, and unsentimental, Agorafabulous! celebrates eccentricity, resilience, and the power of humor to light up even the darkest corners of our lives. (There are also some sexy parts, but they’re really awkward. Like really, really awkward.)

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The lowest point for award-winning comedian and recovering agoraphobe Benincasa in her funny and unflinchingly honest account of her lifelong battle with panic attacks comes in college when she’s too terrified to use her bathroom and is left to urinate in Le Creuset bowls. She starts having attacks in early childhood and by 16 is on a diet of antidepressant and antianxiety medications to deal with a long list of fears including driving and being a passenger, wet hair, and riding the subway and bus. When she gets to Emerson College, everything completely unravels. Rescued by her very understanding parents, she recuperates at home in New Jersey, seeing a psychiatrist and getting on the right drugs like Prozac and Xanax. The healing comes slowly, with baby steps like graduating from smoothies to solid food and being able to drive alone with the help of an inspirational mix tape. After surviving her first big test—moving 11 hours away to school in Asheville, N.C.—with only one small crackup, she decides she is ready to handle New York City, where “most people are even crazier than I am.” Using humor to help her overcome the anxieties that once dominated her life, Benincasa discovers her gift for comedy and storytelling, and finds tranquility. Agent: Scott Mendel. (Feb.)
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A blisteringly funny yet affecting debut memoir about a young woman's struggle to overcome panic disorder and agoraphobia. Podcast host and award-winning comedian Benincasa recounts her adolescent devolution into a "full-on, obsessive, cowering, trembling agoraphobe." She suffered her first panic attacks when she was 11 and was taking antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs to control her condition by the time she was 16. Her phobias continued to intensify to the point where even short trips to the hair salon became difficult for her. Benincasa, however, ignored the signs that her "weird problems" were getting worse until she got to college. During her junior year, she broke down completely. In the terrible omniscience born from madness, she woke up one day "knowing" that to leave her apartment meant certain disaster. The comedian then began a slow and painful surrender to the phobias that had dogged her from childhood. Her bed became her refuge, cereal bowls her toilets. Therapy, homemade smoothies, "Zentastic, organic, free-range, fair trade, sustainable, sage-scented self-help books" and the timely intervention of friends and family pulled Benincasa back from the edge of her agoraphobic abyss. But she continued to wrestle with her demons through college, teaching jobs and graduate school until she discovered, by accident, the healing power of stand-up comedy. "I subscribe to the notion," she writes, "that if you can laugh at the shittiest moments in your life, you can transcend them." Fabulously quirky and outrageous.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780062024411
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 2/14/2012
  • Pages: 272
  • Sales rank: 149,023
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Sara Benincasa is an award-winning comedian, writer, blogger, and podcast host as well as the writer and star of the one-woman show Agorafabulous! She frequently contributes opinion pieces to CNN.com and was a citizen-journalist for the 2008 MTV News Choose or Lose Street Team. She hosts the Web series Gettin’ Wet with Sara Benincasa and the popular podcast Sex and Other Human Activities. She travels the country to speak about mental illness and women’s issues at universities and conferences. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

The Thing Before the Rest of the Thing xi

Introduction 1

1 In Simplest Terms and Most Convenient Definitions 5

2 Sicily on Five Freakouts a Day 15

3 Bowls of Pee 49

4 Hairapy 81

5 My Hero, My Cuisinart 95

6 Om Mani Padme Fuck You 119

7 Best Little Psych Ward in Carolina 163

8 Billy Has a Boner 181

9 Maybe, Baby 201

10 Funny Business 237

11 The Only Living Girl in New York 249

The Thing at the End of the Thing 253

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  • Posted February 19, 2012

    Hilarious and touching - a must read

    In 2008 I stumbled upon the youtube channel of Miss Benincasa as I was doing a youtube search of Mr. Neil Gaiman. There was a video of Mr. Gaiman where he was discussing the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Off to the side another video was suggested and it was a "Family Hour" video of Sara in her family home walking around talking about bathroom decor. I was intrigued and I found her to be funny and in a weird way watching her video felt like watching a friend. I subscribed to her channel but never got any updates until the "Sarah Palin Vlogs" started to appear in the fall of 2008. These videos were hilarious and I became a huge fan of Sara(Benincasa, not Palin). Since that time I have followed her career through Sirius XM, "Getting Wet", facebook, twitter, and most recently the wonderful podcast "Sex and Other Human Activities." Over the past 3 1/2 years I've come to find that everything she does makes me feel like I'm one of her friends, and this book is no different. I feel that while reading this it was almost as though a friend was telling me about their life, both the good and the bad. I would read a chapter and recognize parts from stories she had told on the podcast or radio show and feel that now I had the whole story. Her writing is very honest and casual, which I enjoy in nonfiction. There is a lot of humor throughout the book but also heartbreak. It is wonderful to see someone "speak" so openly about their mental illness and be able to find the humor in the situations she found herself in. I suppose this is what makes her a great comedian. It may seem strange to feel close to someone that you've never met but Sara lets us into her life and her head and and manages to let us feel that connection. Grab your favorite stuffed animal, a cup of mint tea, and let Sara guide you through her life. Enjoy!

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