Review of 'Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Ali Wong delivers exactly the memoir you would expect from her--raunchy, unapologetic, hilarious--with unexpected heart. Framed as a series of letters to her two young daughters, the book is filled with the same brand of overtly sexual, bodily-fluids-filled comedy of her two TV specials, with jokes that had me bursting out into belly laughs every few minutes like an absolute maniac. As usual, she tackles race, gender, sexuality, and other social issues with keen and piercing insight, but she also touches on softer topics like her affection for her brother and for her mother's Vietnamese culture. Her love for her husband and daughters is at the foundation of all her storytelling and jokes, and at times the text is touching and even moving, which were not emotional experiences I necessarily expected out of a memoir that also makes jokes about anal beads, erectile dysfunction, and laughing so hard you wet …
Ali Wong delivers exactly the memoir you would expect from her--raunchy, unapologetic, hilarious--with unexpected heart. Framed as a series of letters to her two young daughters, the book is filled with the same brand of overtly sexual, bodily-fluids-filled comedy of her two TV specials, with jokes that had me bursting out into belly laughs every few minutes like an absolute maniac. As usual, she tackles race, gender, sexuality, and other social issues with keen and piercing insight, but she also touches on softer topics like her affection for her brother and for her mother's Vietnamese culture. Her love for her husband and daughters is at the foundation of all her storytelling and jokes, and at times the text is touching and even moving, which were not emotional experiences I necessarily expected out of a memoir that also makes jokes about anal beads, erectile dysfunction, and laughing so hard you wet yourself. Ali Wong maintains her icon status with one of the best celebrity memoirs I've read (and I'm a big fan of the genre). Do yourself a favor and read this.
