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  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9781760899127
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $22.99

Dear Girls

Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life




Ali Wong’s heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters cover everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mum in a male-dominated profession, and how she trapped their dad.

Ali Wong's brilliantly sharp insights and humour are more personal and biting than ever in this completely original collection. In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Wong resonated so strongly that she even became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you never see new mum comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads.

In these letters, she shares the wisdom she’s learned from a life in comedy and reveals stories from her life offstage, including the brutal single life in New York (i.e. the inevitable confrontation with erectile dysfunction), reconnecting with her roots (and drinking snake blood) in Vietnam, tales of being a wild child growing up in San Francisco, and parenting war stories. Though addressed to her daughters, Ali Wong’s letters are absurdly funny, surprisingly moving, and enlightening (and gross) for all.

  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9781760899127
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Ali Wong

Ali Wong is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actress. She has released two hit Netflix comedy specials—Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife—and stars in the Netflix original film Always Be My Maybe. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.

Praise for Dear Girls

[Wong] spins a volume whose pages simultaneously shock and satisfy . . . Dear Girls is not so much a real-talk handbook as it is a myth-puncturing manifesto.

Vogue

Dear Girls can be crude and flippant, LOL-dense and breezy -- so breezy, in fact, you will be desensitized to the grossest of Wong’s gross-outs by chapter one, at which point you have already learned how to hold in a fart during yoga. But as with her stage comedy, she is also sneakily thoughtful about the public roles she occupies -- Asian American, working mom, woman on comedy stages -- and the come-from-behind grind they necessarily demand

Washington Post

A collection of letters to her baby girls that are barn-burning reflections on being a working mom, marriage, sex, and more. If you’ve ever wanted to have Ali Wong’s signature voice in your head for 200+ pages, now’s your chance.

Glamour

Yes, we fell in love with Ali Wong when we watched her Netflix stand-up specials. Yes, we fell in love with her all over again when we watched her in Always Be My Maybe this summer. This fall, her world domination is complete with the release of her essay collection, Dear Girls. In it, you'll find hilarious essays written as letters to her two daughters, that are filled with insight and smart observations about motherhood, womanhood, and life in general. (And yes, you're going to fall in love with her all over again. Again.)

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