{"product_id":"9781984819789","title":"Ten Steps to Nanette","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER • Multi-award-winning Hannah Gadsby broke comedy with their show \u003ci\u003eNanette\u003c\/i\u003e. Now they take us through the defining moments in their life and their powerful decision to tell the truth—no matter the cost.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon’t miss Hannah Gadsby’s \u003ci\u003eSomething Special, \u003c\/i\u003ecoming to Netflix on May 9!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:\u003ci\u003e PopSugar, Vulture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself,” Hannah Gadsby declared in their show \u003ci\u003eNanette,\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eTen Steps to Nanette\u003c\/i\u003e continues Gadsby’s tradition of confounding expectations and norms, properly introducing us to one of the most explosive, formative voices of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGadsby 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.             \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGadsby 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” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).           \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarrowing and hilarious, \u003ci\u003eTen Steps to Nanette\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNanette:\u003c\/i\u003e the renouncement of self-deprecation, the rejection of misogyny, and the moral significance of truth-telling.","brand":"Hannah Gadsby","offers":[{"title":"Random House Publishing Group |  Hardback  |  2022-03-29","offer_id":44150924837119,"sku":"9781984819789","price":37.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bccd2c52-c8ab-4a0f-8d15-f81916a57e03.jpg?v=1662082415","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781984819789","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}