Window Shopping for God : A Comedian's Search for Meaning
(2024)

Nonfiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd., 2024
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1 online resource (256 pages)

ISBN/ISSN
9781771624008 MWT16787730, 1771624000 16787730
LANGUAGE
English
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"Window Shopping for God" is a memoir by your average people-pleasing, meaning-of-life-seeking, downward-facing-dog-posing stand-up comedian. Deborah Kimmett has worshipped a lot of deities. After emerging from a rigidly Catholic childhood, she danced with witches, whirled with Sufis and explored the Power of Now like there was no tomorrow. Whether describing her teenage fear of demonic possession (and wardrobe hack for thwarting the Prince of Darkness), the perils of a comedy career (alcoholism, alienation, sexism, etc.), or her reconciliation with her estranged brother as he faced terminal illness (just to up the stakes), Kimmett's writing is unflinchingly honest, laugh-out-loud funny and deeply relatable. As she says, "if you disassociate from your body, it's called trauma. If you disassociate and get paid for it, it's called a comedy career."

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