Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation -- Sarah Cooper, Hardcover

In this hilariously revealing debut memoir, comedian Sarah Cooper charts her rise from lip-synching in church to lip-synching the president, and all the dad issues she collected along the way.

As the youngest of four in a tight-knit Jamaican family, Cooper cut her teeth in the mean cornfields of suburban Maryland. Soon she became a charmingly neurotic woman trying to break her worst patterns and reclaim her linen closet. From an early obsession with hair bands to her struggle to escape the immigrant-to-basic-bitch pipeline to her use of the Internet as a marriage counselor (after being fired by two real ones) and the curse of her TED Talk vibe, Cooper invites us to share in her triumphs and humiliations as she tries (and fails) to balance her own dreams with the American dream.

With determination and wit, Cooper mines a lifetime of oppressive perfectionism for your laughter and enjoyment, as she moves from tech to comedy, marriage to divorce, smart to foolish, while proving once and for all that being foolish is actually the smartest thing you can do.

Author: Sarah Cooper
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 10/03/2023
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.41h x 6.28w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780593473184

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 08/21/2023

About the Author
SARAH COOPER, who has 3.3 million social media followers across combined platforms, is a writer, producer, actress, and author of the books How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-Threatening Leadership Strategies for Women and 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings: How to Get by Without Even Trying, titles which are both in development for TV series. Sarah built her comedy career in between working for companies like Yahoo and Google, where she was fed free lunches and lots of material. She was named one of Variety's "10 Comics to Watch for 2020" and one of Vulture's "The Comedians You Should and Will Know in 2020." Her current projects include Unfrosted, an upcoming Netflix comedy written by, directed by, and starring Jerry Seinfeld; and The Wanderers, an off-Broadway play at the Roundabout Theatre, costarring Katie Holmes.