Everything is Going to be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed EuropeanGrand Tour

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"Shukert's sharp comic turns careen smack into the middle of our hearts." - Los Angeles Times From performer, playwright, comedian, author and writer and producer of "Glow" and "Superirl" Rachel Shukert, Everything Is Going to Be Great, is a hilarious memoir of traveling through Europe in her twenties. Rachel chronicles her youthful navigation through the haphazard fun and debauchery of new freedoms, and the growing pains that ultimately accompany "adulthood." Fans of Sloane Crosley and David Sedaris are going to love Shulkert's story, and her sharp, smart humor.

Rachel Shukert is a playwright, performer, and the author of HAVE YOU NO SHAME? AND OTHER REGRETTABLE STORIES. She was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, and now lives in New York City with a husband named Ben, a cat named Angelica, and a flowering bromeliad named Dr. Bernard Feldman.

"[Shukert's] wit is pitch-perfect and amusingly self-conscious....The story itself spans continents, but the consistency with which Shukert perceives everything anchors and enlivens wherever her antics land her."--Nylon Magazine "A great summer read for anyone who likes funny ladies--or who has a friend who is threatening to give it all up to teach English in Prague. This should stop them cold."--The Daily Beast "If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav."--Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan "Rachel Shukert's memoir is more than just 'girl-gone-overseas'; it's a hilarious, brave and surprisingly piercing work of art."--Diablo Cody, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Juno "Thoroughly enjoyable."--Time Out New York "[Everything is Going to be Great] comes off like a cross between David Sedaris and Chuck Palahniuk....lurking beneath the jabs and one-liners is an affecting--and pretty unforgettable--coming-of-age tale."--Entertainment Weekly "Rachel Shukert manages to do something almost unprecedented in the female travelogue subgenre: she is funny."--The New Yorker "Shukert possesses a certain talent to find the funny in almost any situation, and her shockingly personal and irreverent writing makes for many laughs....[an] entertaining and very current meditation on what it means to be a young American artist abroad."--Booklist "The humor with which [Shukert] recounts her experiences allows her work to transcend beyond the cliche of overseas-love-affairs-gone-awry....An entertaining and often laugh-out-loud--though not altogether atypical--story of soul-searching abroad."--Kirkus Reviews "Rachel Shukert's new memoir Everything Is Going To Be Great does something unfortunately rare in women's writing: celebrating mistakes....what Everything affirms is that screwing up from time to time--or even a lot--doesn't make you a terrible person."--Jezebel