Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation (Unabridged) Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation (Unabridged)

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Multi-award-winning Hannah Gadsby broke comedy with their show Nanette. Now they take us through the defining moments in their life and their powerful decision to tell the truth—no matter the cost.

Don’t miss Hannah Gadsby’s Something Special, now streaming on Netflix!

“Hannah is a Promethean force, a revolutionary talent. This hilarious, touching, and sometimes tragic book is all about where their fires were lit.”—Emma Thompson

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Vulture

“There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself,” Hannah Gadsby declared in their show Nanette, a scorching critique of the way society conducts public debates about marginalized communities. When it premiered on Netflix, it left audiences captivated by their blistering honesty and their singular ability to take viewers from rolling laughter to devastated silence. Ten Steps to Nanette continues Gadsby’s tradition of confounding expectations and norms, properly introducing us to one of the most explosive, formative voices of our time.

Gadsby grew up as the youngest of five children in an isolated town in Tasmania, where homosexuality was illegal until 1997. They perceived their childhood as safe and “normal,” but as they gained an awareness of their burgeoning queerness, the outside world began to undermine the “vulnerably thin veneer” of their existence. After moving to mainland Australia and receiving a degree in art history, Gadsby found themselves adrift, working itinerant jobs and enduring years of isolation punctuated by homophobic and sexual violence. At age twenty-seven, without a home or the ability to imagine their own future, they were urged by a friend to enter a stand-up competition. They won, and so began their career in comedy.             

Gadsby became well known for their self-deprecating, autobiographical humor that made them the butt of their own jokes. But in 2015, as Australia debated the legality of same-sex marriage, Gadsby started to question this mode of storytelling, beginning work on a show that would become “the most-talked-about, written-about, shared-about comedy act in years” (The New York Times).           

Harrowing and hilarious, Ten Steps to Nanette traces Gadsby’s growth as a queer person, to their ever-evolving relationship with comedy, and their struggle with late-in-life diagnoses of autism and ADHD, finally arriving at the backbone of Nanette: the renouncement of self-deprecation, the rejection of misogyny, and the moral significance of truth-telling.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
HG
Hannah Gadsby
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
13:47
hr min
RELEASED
2022
March 29
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
825.9
MB

Customer Reviews

BrennaBray ,

Amazing!

Amazing! This is everything and I wish it were required reading.

SaraBeara81 ,

Love her, love her book!!

I could listen to her all day, every day. I’ve noticed some parallels between how she describes her thinking process and how I think, which raises some questions of my own about myself. Moments in this book have made me genuinely laugh, sad, angry, and frustrated- all the feelings! I highly recommend this as an audiobook (because there’s a whole extra level of immersive experience when you hear her words as she intended them to be heard)! Absolutely love her, love her book, and will listen to it again, because certainly I have missed some details that went over my head or in one ear and out the other.

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