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It's Not You, Geography, It's Me
It's Not You, Geography, It's Me

It's Not You, Geography, It's Me

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

240 Pages, 5.5 x 8.25

Formats: Trade Paper, EPUB, Mobipocket, PDF

Trade Paper, $21.99 (US $21.99) (CA $25.99)

Publication Date: October 2014

ISBN 9780702253249

Rights: US & CA

University Of Queensland Press (Oct 2014)
University of Queensland Press

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Overview

In this hilarious—and brutally honest—memoir about mental illness and depression, Kristy Chambers goes in search of greener grass and finds that, if she could only cut her head off, she would probably enjoy travel and life. For someone who hates exercise, Kristy Chambers is pretty good at running away, and coming back again when her credit cards are declined. She's not so much an international jetsetter as a loose cannon with a passport. So, in the manner of Eat, Pray, Love, a privileged white girl takes her privileged white arse on the road in an attempt to find happiness. With a family history of mental illness that goes back generations and a complicated long-term relationship with depression, will eating all the pasta in Italy help her to find the silver lining she's looking for? Of course it won't. It's pasta, not magic beans. Joined by the most unreliable travel companion of them all—her mental health—Kristy openly, honestly, and humorously recounts their adventures together.

Reviews

"For a book packed with medical illness and horror, Get Well Soon! is a life-affirmingly funny book. Repulsive and pungent, but always humane, this is without a doubt one of the most distressingly funny books I have ever read."  —Benjamin Law, author, The Family Law and Gaysia, on Get Well Soon!

"If David Sedaris had been an Australian nurse he probably would have written this."  —Catherine Deveny, author, The Happiness Show, on Get Well Soon!

"An unsettling account of nursing that is devoid of dramatization, characterized by cynicism, and delivered in the darkly comic style of Judith Lucy."  —Bookseller + Publisher on Get Well Soon!

"Chambers is a natural comic, and while the humor is often dark or in-your-face, there are moments of poignancy."  —Sydney Morning Herald and Saturday Age "Pick of the Week," on Get Well Soon!

Author Biography

Kristy Chambers is a former medical professional who worked in several hospitals around Australia and the author of the memoir Get Well Soon! My (Un)Brilliant Career as a Nurse. She lives in New York City.