Sarah Cooper — Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation - with Phoebe Robinson

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Sarah Cooper — Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation - with Phoebe Robinson

Politics and Prose

In this hilariously revealing debut memoir, comedian Sarah Cooper charts her rise from lip-synching in church to lip-synching the president, and all the dad issues she collected along the way. As the youngest of four in a tight-knit Jamaican family, Cooper cut her teeth in the mean cornfields of suburban Maryland. Soon she became a charmingly neurotic woman trying to break her worst patterns and reclaim her linen closet. From an early obsession with hair bands to her struggle to escape the immigrant-to-basic-bitch pipeline to her use of the Internet as a marriage counselor (after being fired by two real ones) and the curse of her TED Talk vibe, Cooper invites us to share in her triumphs and humiliations as she tries (and fails) to balance her own dreams with the American dream. With determination and wit, Cooper mines a lifetime of oppressive perfectionism for your laughter and enjoyment, as she moves from tech to comedy, marriage to divorce, smart to foolish, while proving once and for all that being foolish is actually the smartest thing you can do. Sarah Cooper  is a writer and comedian who has over 3.3 million followers across social media. She is the author of  100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings  and  How to Be Successful without Hurting Men’s Feelings , as well as the star of the hit Netflix comedy special, Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine. She was named one of Variety’s“10 Comics to Watch” and one of Vulture’s“The Comedians You Should and Will Know,” and has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Tonight Show, Ellen, and has been featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Washington Post, InStyle Magazine and countless others. Her current projects include Unfrosted, an upcoming Netflix comedy written by, directed by, and starring Jerry Seinfeld.Follow her on Instagram for tour dates and all the cute family photos that didn’t make it into the book: @sarahcpr Cooper will be in conversation with  Phoebe Robinson . Robinson is a standup comedian, best-selling author, producer, actress, and publisher. She is the author of the essay collections  You Can’t Touch My Hair ,  Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay , and  Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes , and, in 2020, she launched her own imprint, Tiny Reparations Books. Robinson is also the co-creator and co-star of the podcast “2 Dope Queens” and HBO series of the same name. Other onscreen work includes the TV adaptation of “Everything’s Trash” and the standup special “Sorry, Harriet Tubman,” both of which are produced by her company, Tiny Reparations. She most recently received the Variety’s Comedy Innovator Award for her work and continued contribution in comedy.