It's Not You, Geography, It's Me

Kristy Chambers

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Queensland Univ. Press
24 September 2014

Memoirs; Coping with illness; Biography - Australian

A hilarious and brutally honest memoir about mental illness and depression.

For someone who hates exercise, Kristy Chambers is pretty good at running away, and coming back again when her credit cards are declined. She's not so much an international jet-setter as a loose cannon with a passport. So, in the manner of Eat, Pray, Love, a privileged white girl takes her privileged white ass on the road in an attempt to find happiness.

With a family history of mental illness that goes back generations and a complicated long-term relationship with depression, will eating all the pasta in Italy help her to find the silver lining she's looking for? Of course it won't. It's pasta, not magic beans.

Joined by the most unreliable travel companion of them all - her mental health - Kristy goes in search of greener grass and finds that if she could only cut her head off, she would probably enjoy travel, and life, 100 per cent of the time (or 95 per cent if you include diarrhoea). Comedy ensues.

By: Kristy Chambers
Imprint: Queensland Univ. Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 141mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 268g
ISBN: 9780702253249
ISBN 10: 0702253243
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 24 September 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for It's Not You, Geography, It's Me

An unsettling account of nursing that is devoid of dramatization, characterized by cynicism, and delivered in the darkly comic style of Judith Lucy. -- Bookseller + Publisher on Get Well Soon! For a book packed with medical illness and horror, Get Well Soon! is a life-affirmingly funny book. Repulsive and pungent, but always humane, this is without a doubt one of the most distressingly funny books I have ever read. --Benjamin Law, author, The Family Law and Gaysia, on Get Well Soon! If David Sedaris had been an Australian nurse he probably would have written this. --Catherine Deveny, author, The Happiness Show, on Get Well Soon!