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  • By: Casey Wilson
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  • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (51 ratings)
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Summary

"Magnificent." (People Magazine)

The instant New York Times best seller: laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multitalented actress, comedian, podcaster, and writer Casey Wilson.

Casey Wilson has a lot on her mind and she isn’t afraid to share. In this dazzling collection, each essay skillfully constructed and brimming with emotion, she shares her thoughts on the joys and vagaries of modern-day womanhood and motherhood, introduces the not-quite-typical family that made her who she is, and persuasively argues that lowbrow pop culture is the perfect lens through which to examine human nature.

Whether she’s extolling the virtues of eating in bed, processing the humiliation over her father’s late in life perm, mourning her mother's passing, or revealing her patented method for keeping the mystery alive in a marriage, Casey is witty, candid, and full of poignant and funny surprises. Humorous dives into her obsessions and areas of personal expertise - self-help, nice guys, cool girls (not her) and how to receive visitors in the bath - are matched by touching meditations on female friendship, anger, grief, motherhood, and identity.

Reading The Wreckage of My Presence is like spending time with a close friend - a deeply passionate, full-tilt, joyous, excessive, compulsive, shameless, hungry-for-it-all, loyal, cheerleading friend. A friend who is ready for any big feelings that come her way - and isn’t afraid to embrace them.

©2021 Casey Wilson (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

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I loved it! Just the escape I needed. So honest, bright and funny and made me laugh so much sometimes and maybe shed a little tear! Fantastic!

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Wow wow wow

Casey is so funny, so smart and so heart wrenching. All of my favourite things. Loved hearing her tell these stories- they’re beautifully written and engaging. More, more, more!

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Hilarious and moving

I love this - I've listened to a few essay collections recently and this is by far my favourite (found Rachel Bloom's very hit and miss). She's incredibly likeable (although I did find the text exchange with her husband chapter a bit grating) but I really enjoyed the rest of the book. I was genuinely moved at points and laughed out loud several times.

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fantastic

love her. love her reading it. love the essays. love the range of emotions
love it

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Everything you want it to be and more

This book feels like an old friend chatting to you about their life, smart, hilarious, touching and real, you don’t need to be a fan of Casey’s to fall in love with these wonderful essays. (But it helps!) Loved it.

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Funny and poignant

I love Casey Rose Wilson and after listening to this book, I love her even more. Thank you thank you thank you!

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Sweet and witty

Lovely, funny but also sad, as life is if we could all break life moments into essays to help us figure it out. Really liked it. The narration is so good, feels like a chatting with a friend who is candid and unapologetically herself! <3

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Loved it.

I didn’t want it to end!! Absolutely brilliant book. So honest and reassuring. Want more.

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Brilliant, Amazing, Wonderful!

I went into this expecting funny and ended up getting everything. It’s hilarious, heartbreaking, uplifting and just honestly an amazing book.

Thank you Casey for writing this ❤️

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