We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

3.5 stars.

I basically had zero familiarity with Samantha Irby or her blog prior to picking this up, other than I heard part of her first essay, My Bachelorette Application, on a podcast and thought it was funny. I enjoyed this collection of essays a lot, because despite having a rough upbringing and health issues and depression, she has a good sense of humor and, I thought, speaks a lot of truth about the world.

Standout essays:
The Blues for Fred (about relationships and wanting to be loved and how devastating it is when things don't work out)
The Miracle Porker (about acquiring her cat, Helen Keller, who has her own voice and will cut you)
Happy Birthday (about her late, alcoholic father and instability growing up with each of her parents)
Nashville Hot Chicken (about road-tripping to Tennessee with her girlfriend in order to release her father's ashes)
I'm In Love and It's Boring (about being comfortable in unstable, distrustful relationships, and the discomfort in stability, even though you might actually be happy)

A lot of good stuff here, and even the serious, heavy stuff is treated with wry humor. I finished the book hoping good things for Sam moving forward.

But, if you're bothered by a LOT of cussing, rather explicit descriptions of sex (with both men and women), and frequent comments about bodily functions and porn consumption, give this book a pass.