Sucker Punch: Essays [Hardcover]

The long-awaited follow-up from one of the most original and hilarious voices writing today.

Scaachi Kouls first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the issues of race, body image, love, friendship, and growing up the daughter of immigrants. When the time came to start writing her next book, Scaachi assumed shed be updating her story with essays about her elaborate four-day wedding, settling down to domestic bliss, and continuing her never-ending arguments with her parents. Instead, the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Scaachis marriage fell apart, she lost her job, and her mother was diagnosed with cancer.

Sucker Punchis about what happens when the life you thought youd be living radically changes course, everything you thought you knew about the world and yourself has tilted on its axis, and you have to start forging a new path forward. Scaachi employs her biting wit to interrogate her previous belief that fighting is the most effective tool for progress. She examines the fights shes hadwith her parents, her ex-husband, her friends, online strangers, and herselfall in an attempt to understand when a fight is worth having, and when it's better to walk away.

Scaachi Koulis a Senior Writer forSlateand the co-host of the Ambie Award-winning podcast,Scamfluencers. She co-hosted the Emmy-nominated Netflix series,Follow This, and her writing has appeared inThe New Yorker, This American Life, New York Magazine,andThe Cut. You can also find her in documentaries likeQuiet On SetandPretty Baby. Her bestselling book,One Day Well All Be Dead And None Of This Will Matter, was aNew York TimesEditors Choice. You can follow her on Instagram or on her Substack,Hater Nation.

A beautiful, painful, funny, and ultimately inspiring accountof a marriage crumbling, told through Scaachi Kouls distinct voice and trademark sense ofl&