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Hyperbole and a Half

  • 384 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1900
  • 7 editions

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1 About this book

Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. Touching, absurd, and darkly comic, Allie Brosh’s highly anticipated book Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations.

This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written.

Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. From the Author: This is a book I wrote.

Good for readers who want: humor, a true life story, and psychology.

  • Humor
  • Biography
  • Pictorial American wit and humor
  • Medicine
  • Psychology
  • Dogs
  • Genius
  • Depression

2 About Allie Brosh

Born 1985

Alexandra Brosh (born May 18, 1985) is an American blogger, writer, and comic artist best known for Hyperbole and a Half, a blog and webcomic she created in 2009. Brosh grew up in small towns across the U.S. and eventually attended the University of Montana. While there, Brosh started the Hyperbole and a Half blog. On the site, she told stories from her life using a mix of text and intentionally crude illustrations.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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