Everything Is Wrong with Me: A Memoir of an American Childhood Gone, Well, Wrong [9780061766657]

Overview

“People who grow up like this tend to become agoraphobics, serial killers, or really funny writers. Mulgrew, I think – hope? – is the last of these three things. His stories of childhood made me laugh out loud.” — Rob McElhenney, star, creator, and producer of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

“The somewhat alarming, always interesting world inside Jason’s brain has now been strewn across the pages of a book. Godspeed, reader.” — Steve Hely, author of How I Became a Famous Novelist

Jason Mulgrew’s wildly popular blog “Everything Is Wrong With Me: 30, Bipolar and Hungry,” gives rise to a memoir of startling insight, comedy, and irreversible, unconscionable stupidity.

• A Dysfunctional Family Memoir: Where your dad getting arrested for attempted murder on Christmas Eve is just another story you grow up with.
• South Philly Setting: From the Mummers Parade to stealing cable with "the chip," this is a laugh-out-loud tour of a working-class neighborhood that time forgot.
• 80s and 90s Nostalgia: A time of Sega Genesis, stolen condoms, cap guns, and discovering pornography for the first time on a fuzzy cable channel.
• Humorous Essays: Read the story of the Scotch Bonnet Pepper challenge, a childhood fireworks-selling enterprise, and the surprisingly poignant search for hookers in his dad’s truck.