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Approval Junkie

Adventures in Caring Too Much

by Faith Salie
Faith Salie
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From comedian and journalist Faith Salie, of NPR's Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me! and CBS News Sunday Morning, a collection of daring, funny essays chronicling the author's adventures during her lifelong quest for approval
 
Faith Salie has done it all in the name of validation. Whether she’s trying to impress her parents with a perfect GPA, undergoing an exorcism to save her toxic marriage, or baking a 3D excavator cake for her son’s birthday, Salie is the ultimate approval seeker—an “approval junkie,” if you will. 
In this collection of daring, honest essays, Salie shares stories from her lifelong quest for gold stars, recounting her strategy for winning (very Southern) high school beauty pageant; her struggle to pick the perfect outfit to wear to her divorce; and her difficulty falling in love again, and then conceiving, in the years following her mother’s death.
 
With thoughtful irreverence, Salie reflects on why she tries so hard to please others, and herself, highlighting a phenomenon that many people—especially women—experience at home and in the workplace. Equal parts laugh-out loud funny and poignant, Approval Junkie is one woman’s journey to realizing that seeking approval from others is more than just getting them to like you—it's challenging yourself to achieve, and survive, more than you ever thought you could.

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  • Release date

    April 19, 2016

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780451483034
      • File size: 208826 KB
      • Duration: 07:15:03

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Media personality Faith Salie gives an expressive, nimble performance of her memoir, which bounces back and forth in time as it covers her childhood, career, two marriages, and path to motherhood. Salie employs the full range of her voice, from loud and expansive to quiet confessional asides, engaging listeners more fully with her stories of overachieving and building her life and career. While humor drives the book, Salie embraces emotional complexity in her exploration of sensitive subjects such as grief, miscarriage, and divorce. She balances seriousness with a comedian's recognition of the absurdity embedded in so many of life's challenges. This chatty, relatable listen will win Salie new fans. A.F. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 8, 2016
      This beach-read of a memoir by comedian and culture commentator Salie is a series of essays, or more accurately, stand-up routines put to the page. The point of most of them is to win the reader’s approval by convincing us that Salie is beautiful, successful, smart, and thin, a message she smooths over by couching it in self-deprecation. She is clever enough (a Rhodes scholar, in fact) to disarm her readers with witty neologisms—her “wasband” for her ex-husband, her “noga pants,” for yoga pants in which she does no yoga—and to almost convince readers that she believes that her life, where she won a high school beauty pageant and made out with a boyfriend near Eliot House at Harvard while listening to Madame Butterfly, is just par for the course. There are some great moments in here: Salie takes responsibility for failure when she bombs an appearance on Bill O’Reilly’s show, and she is poignant and loving in describing the bond that breast-feeding created between her and her baby. When Salie is not trying to win the reader’s approval and writes from the heart, the memoir is as pleasing as they come.

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