With her own unique flare and infectious sense of humor, Issa Rae’s content has garnered more than twenty-five million views and more than 200,000 subscribers on YouTube. In addition to making the Forbes “30 Under 30” list twice and winning the 2012 Shorty Award for Best Web Show for her hit series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Issa Rae has worked on web content for Pharrell Williams, Tracey Edmonds, and numerous others. She developed a TV series with Shonda Rhimes for ABC and is currently developing a half-hour comedy, Insecure, for HBO. Issa has received national attention with major media outlets including The New York Times, CNN, Elle, Seventeen, Rolling Stone, VIBE, Fast Company, MSNBC, Essence, and more.
"With MISADVENTURES OF AWKWARD BLACK GIRL, Issa shows us why she is
the queen of media and why we need a multiplicity of voices in the
media."
*Los Angeles Times*
"Issa Rae nailed it: Her book TheMisadventures of Awkward Black
Girl is why the term must-read exists."
*Marie Claire*
"A book ripe with insights for the awkwardamong us."
*Cosmo*
“For fans of Mindy Kaling’s Is EveryoneHanging Out without Me?. . .
). Already a strong voice for diversity in the media, Rae issomeone
readers of all stripes will love getting to know, however
awkwardly.”
*Booklist*
“In Rae, her audience has landed on a singular voicewith the verve
and veracity of uncorked champagne. An authentic and freshextension
of the author's successful Web series.”
*Kirkus Reviews*
“You'll laugh freakishly hard over the geniusYouTube star's book
about everything from PDA to coworkers who always suck up”
*Glamour*
“Delightfully deadpan…the real discovery here is that Rae has a
natural flair for narrative,showing promise as an essayist with her
unique perspective…a writer to watch.”
*Essence*
“Cutting, laugh out loud observations.”
*Uptown Magazine*
“I loved this book. Issa Rae is brilliant, funny andloveably
awkward.”
*Mindy Kaling*
"Ifyou like Awkward and love Black. Or love Awkward and like Black.
Or if you'relike me and just can't get enough of Awkward and Black
in equal doses, then youwill love love love Issa Rae and her
Awkward Black Girl tales of Awkward BlackGirlishness. That wasn't
too awkward was it?"
*Larry Wilmore*
“In her hilarious debut book, Issa Rae uses the brilliantly wry
voice she's honed in her searing and necessary webseries to tell a
story that is so personal yet so universal: awkward girl becomes
awkward woman, and in doing so realizes that awkward is the best
way to be.”
*Lena Dunham*
"Farfrom awkward, Issa Rae wittily shows us how to navigate a
society stillobsessed with stereotypes. Her essays are a rallying
cry for all those daringto be unique, international, and fully
human. A must read for thinking andfeeling people from 8 to
80."
*Susan Fales-Hill*
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