She is utterly hilarious (NewYorkTimes.com) and delightfully loopy (ChicagoTribune.com). But comedian and radio host Sara Benincasa's life hasn't always been a funny joyride. Since childhood, she struggled with panic disorder, becoming by age twenty-one a full-on obsessive, cowering, trembling agoraphobe. Terrified to leave her own apartment, she stacked empty cans and jars against the wall of her tiny studio apartment. Her fear eventually extended to everything but her bed. Afraid of even the sink, she began using cereal bowls as toilets. And always there was the siren song of the knives in the kitchen drawer, luring her to give herself over to emptiness. As she neared the edge, friends and family, therapy and drugs intervened to help Sara build a new world from the ashes of her former life. Today, the acclaimed artist tours the world - a life inconceivable to the frightened, stick-thin young woman crouching in the dark whom she once was. "Agorafabulous!" is her funny, unpretentious recollections of being a prisoner of fear and how she struggled to overcome her demons.
Earthy and relatable, unabashedly incorrect and unsentimental, she will break your heart in one sentence and leave you hunched over with laughter in the next (Sam Apple, author of "American Parent").
- ISBN10 0062024418
- ISBN13 9780062024411
- Publish Date 5 March 2012 (first published 14 February 2012)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 12 March 2014
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint William Morrow
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English