This could all come across a bit Chris Martin, but it doesn’t.īut do not worry: there are laughs. At the back of the book, she includes practical steps on how to help in the fight for gun control. A section is dedicated to two women who were shot and killed at a screening of her film. Not a wheeze about broken condoms and cramp, but an account of how Schumer lost her virginity to rape. There’s a chapter entitled How I Lost My Virginity. That’s probably not what you were expecting. Some of the prose on her dad’s illness could rival Oliver Sacks or Paul Kalanithi.
I read that line three times over it was so good I had to fish it out of my gut. When we saw it rolling in, we made eye contact and nodded to each other like musicians agreeing to play the bridge.” That last wave we would ever ride together.
Then there’s this on the last time the two ever went surfing together: “We waited for a good wave. “I’ve been mourning him while he’s still alive,” Schumer writes at one point of the gregarious, handsome man who struggles to find hope in recovery and who has, on more than one occasion, soiled himself in public.
The writing on her father’s multiple sclerosis (which was given a subplot in Trainwreck) is both warm and devastating. Where it shines is in the jokes less told and scenes less sketched. Also, when I saw that the opening chapter was called An Open Letter to My Vagina, I sighed, because: a) who isn’t sick of open letters? and b) we know a lot about Schumer’s vagina and nothing can ever top her description of it in her HBO special as looking like “an old lounge singer’s mouth”.īut, though the first 40 pages of The Girl… read as though an enterprising show runner has picked up some script notes on set and flogged them (there are too many zany asides and “anythiiiinnnnnnnnggggg”s), the rest of this book is resoundingly brilliant. But we don’t really get down to it until the last chapter and then it makes beautiful sense. The book’s title is a play on Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo franchise. But part of Schumer’s huge success as a comedian – the ratings smash Inside Amy Schumer hosting MTV awards shows – is how well she skewers double standards. But it’s also often the writing women are pushed into – it’s the business model of entire websites. It is still the case that when a woman writes or talks candidly, her words are viewed as confessional because of how long women’s voices have been suppressed. It’s easy to see why Schumer’s book is billed as “confessional” – women’s writing often is.
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