Scaachi Koul. (2017). One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays. Unabridged Macmillan Audio.

Scaachi Koul. 2017. One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays. Macmillan Audio.

Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays. Macmillan Audio, 2017.

Scaachi Koul. One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays. Unabridged Macmillan Audio, 2017.

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   • bioText: Scaachi Koul was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, and is a culture writer for BuzzFeed. Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Hairpin, The Globe and Mail, and Jezebel. One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter is her first book. She lives in Toronto.
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"Certain authors are their own best narrators...Here, Koul's accomplished reading comes with the bonus of regular vocal interjections from her father." — Library Journal
A debut collection of fierce, funny essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Western culture, addressing sexism, stereotypes, and the universal miseries of life.
This program is read by the author

In One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul deploys her razor-sharp humor to share all the fears, outrages, and mortifying moments of her life. She learned from an early age what made her miserable, and for Scaachi anything can be cause for despair. Whether it's a shopping trip gone awry; enduring awkward conversations with her bikini waxer; overcoming her fear of flying while vacationing halfway around the world; dealing with Internet trolls, or navigating the fears and anxieties of her parents.
Alongside these personal stories are pointed observations about life as a woman of color: where every aspect of her appearance is open for critique, derision, or outright scorn; where strict gender rules bind in both Western and Indian cultures, leaving little room for a woman not solely focused on marriage and children to have a career (and a life) for herself.
With a sharp eye and biting wit, incomparable rising star and cultural observer Scaachi Koul offers a hilarious, scathing, and honest look at modern life.

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   • content: Canadian humorist Scaachi Koul performs her collection of biographical essays, which range from amusing to illuminating. Addressing topics like living between cultures, anxiety, and body image, Koul's precise and understated delivery allows listeners time to consider her words as she finds humor and interest in unexaggerated reality. These strengths are especially useful when she navigates through family trees and sometimes complicated rites of passage. The production is punctuated by vignettes in which Koul's father talks directly to her, gently admonishing as fathers will, adding another layer to stories that often include him. This production will please fans of humorists like David Sedaris and Mindy Kaling. A.F. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
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     September 1, 2017
     

     Certain authors are their own best narrators--even more true for memoirs (think Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Luvvie Ajayi). Here, Koul's accomplished reading comes with the bonus of regular vocal interjections from her father. With this first book, a collection of smart, sassy, revealing essays, BuzzFeed culture writer Koul presents her personal experiences as universally resonating; her youthful, earnest voice serves to enhance what's on the page. Caught between her parents' Kashmiri immigrant background and her Calgary birth and upbringing, Koul deftly uses humor as an effective balm in soothing uncomfortable generational, familial, cultural, and ethnic disconnects. She knows how to laugh at herself (a changing-room fiasco with the perfect skirt), but she's unblinkingly veracious about inequity ("shadism" in India) and rape culture ("the first time I was roofied"). Most compelling for today's media-addicted generation might be the two-week hiatus Koul took from Twitter--deleting her account--after a tweet about wanting to read more work by nonwhite, nonmale writers provoked a vicious barrage, including death threats. VERDICT Koul definitively has her say--although her irresistible father still has the sweet satisfaction of getting the last word.--Terry Hong, Smithsonian BookDragon, Washington, DC

     Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Starred review from March 13, 2017
     Simultaneously uproarious and affecting, the personal essays in Buzzfeed contributor Koul’s debut explore the nuances of life as a first-generation Canadian with Indian parents, from phobias, guilt trips, and grudges to the drama of interracial dating. She provides insight into the experience of traveling to her parents’ homeland, undergoing the inverse of their assimilation, and the conflicting desire to maintain and amend cultural traditions (for example, she dislikes weeklong wedding celebrations with alcohol restrictions). She discerns the “shadism” of India’s caste system and its more benign cultural quirks, like every woman being given the title of “aunt” (“Mom, why do you have forty sisters? Was your mother a sea turtle?”). There is an occasional essay of sheer slapstick, as when Koul describes getting stuck inside a coveted garment in a boutique dressing room (“I flew too close to the sun with this skirt,” she remarks sadly), but she also reflects poignantly on race, sexism, and body image issues. She includes a surprisingly sympathetic judgment of misogynist internet trolls and a polemic against rape culture that contains the unfortunate phrase “the first time I was roofied.” The specifics of Koul’s life are unique, but the overarching theme of inheritance is universal, particularly the vacillation between struggling against becoming one’s parents and the begrudging acceptance that their ways might not be so bad. Koul’s deft humor is a fringe benefit. Agent: Ron Eckel, Cooke Agency.

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CONTENTS
Inheritance Tax — 1
Size Me Up — 33
Fair and Lovely — 53
Aus-pee-ee-ous — 77
Mute — 111
A Good Egg — 139
Hunting Season — 163
Mister Beast Man to You, Randor — 175
Tawi River, Elbow River — 195
Anyway — 213

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