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These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the presidency. In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics that will in no way unsettle your worldview. In essays both new and adapted from her viral Washington Post columns, Petri reports that the Trump administration is as competent as it is uncorrupted, white supremacy has never been less rampant, and men have been silenced for too long. The woman card is a powerful card to play! Q-Anon makes perfect sense! This Panglossian venture into our swampy present offers a virtuosic first draft of history--a parody as surreal and deranged as the Trump administration itself. Written with devastating wit that reveals a persistent, perhaps manic optimism about her benighted country, Petri's essays have become iconic expressions of rage and anger, read and liked and shared by hundreds of thousands of people. Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why shows why she has emerged as the preeminent political satirist of her generation.

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[A] superb and stinging collection of new and previously published pieces...Acidic and spot-on, Petri's work captures the surreal quality of Trump's tenure as perhaps no other book has. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) [Petri is] a fresh and prolific voice, someone who [is] able to make the painful reality of our current sociopolitical dumpster fire not just very, very funny, but stingingly poignant. -- Washington Post Brilliant and wry...Petri hilariously roasts the last five years in American culture...A stress-reducing belly laugh, and assurance that creative writing's role in interpreting culture hasn't been lost in these uncertain times. -- Booklist (starred review) Narrator Rebecca Gibel offers a humorous performance of this collection of satirical essays...[with a] crisp and understated yet energetic voice...Full of sharp humor and horrified dismay, Petri's powerful words are enhanced by Gibel's deadpan, reassuring delivery. -- AudioFile

"""[A] superb and stinging collection of new and previously published pieces...Acidic and spot-on, Petri's work captures the surreal quality of Trump's tenure as perhaps no other book has."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"" ""[Petri is] a fresh and prolific voice, someone who [is] able to make the painful reality of our current sociopolitical dumpster fire not just very, very funny, but stingingly poignant."" -- ""Washington Post"" ""Brilliant and wry...Petri hilariously roasts the last five years in American culture...A stress-reducing belly laugh, and assurance that creative writing's role in interpreting culture hasn't been lost in these uncertain times."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""Narrator Rebecca Gibel offers a humorous performance of this collection of satirical essays...[with a] crisp and understated yet energetic voice...Full of sharp humor and horrified dismay, Petri's powerful words are enhanced by Gibel's deadpan, reassuring delivery."" -- ""AudioFile"""

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Rebecca Gibel (a.k.a. Kasha Kensington) is a audiobook narrator and stage actress who has performed in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Camelot (IRNE Award nomination), Urinetown (Denver Post Ovation Award nomination), and Othello. She won the Denver Post Readers' Choice Award for Best Year by an Actress. She is a graduate of the Brown University Trinity Rep MFA acting program, where she was the Stephen Sondheim Fellow. Alexandra Petri is an American humorist and newspaper columnist at the Washington Post. She lives in Washington DC.

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