We Are Never Meeting In Real Life: Essays By Samantha Irby

To begin with, the selection We are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays, by Samantha Irby is a very funny, yet infuriating at the same time. Constructed by a blogger/essayist, she recaps on events that were very important to her, capturing the powerful emotional truth within her words. This is the same reason that this book is infuriating, the author only tells her side of the truth, which might not be what had actually happened. She always claims she was in the right during situations, when she may or may not have. She writes about a time when she was about twenty years old, she had started dating a guy who actually had a real job with a real home and made her home cooked meals. She blamed the fact that she could not bear the thought of having a child the reason he had broken up with her, even though the young man had known that from the beginning of their relationship. “ I got dumped pretty much because I cannot bear to have a baby” (Irby 22). That example was very infuriating because the author, maybe it was just for humor or maybe not, could not hold responsibility for her own actions that may or may not have been the cause to the death of that relationship.

She writes these essays in an autobiography style, but in an untraditional way. The way Irby writes this, it makes her seem very self centered and obnoxious. “I don't want to be fifty years old, married to a dude who resents me…” (Irby 21). Irby acts like she is a victim with every little thing that may have gone wrong in her lifetime. The entire book is just a long drawn out complaint, which was