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Ten Steps to Nanette

A Memoir Situation

by Hannah Gadsby
Hannah Gadsby
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Multi-award-winning Hannah Gadsby broke comedy with their show Nanette. In this “enthralling” (The Washington Post) memoir, they take us through the defining moments in their life and their powerful decision to tell the truth—no matter the cost.
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“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
A BEST BOOK 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. 
 
Gadsby grew up as the youngest of five children in Tasmania, where homosexuality was illegal until 1997. After moving to mainland Australia and receiving a degree in art history, they found themselves adrift, working itinerant jobs and enduring years of isolation punctuated by homophobic and sexual violence. When Gadsby was twenty-seven, a friend encouraged them to enter a stand-up competition. They won, and so began their career in comedy.
 
Gadsby became well known for their self-disparaging humor, but in 2015, as Australia debated the legality of same-sex marriage, they started to question this mode of storytelling, beginning to work on a show that would transform their career and 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, 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.

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    March 29, 2022

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593210154
      • File size: 397273 KB
      • Duration: 13:47:39

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This memoir is wonderfully narrated by the author, an Australian stand-up comedian whose work combines humor with personal accounts of the brutal realities of her life as a gay woman on the autism spectrum. Hannah Gadsby delivers this audiobook in the same way she performs on stage, demonstrating a mastery of expression and pacing that allows her words and stories to have maximum impact. In her unconventional memoir, Gadsby covers a broad range of topics, such as her complex relationship with her siblings and parents, her experiences with physical and sexual abuse, her diagnosis of autism, and her long road to self-acceptance, including the story of how she developed her Netflix comedy show, NANETTE. This is one of the don't-miss audiobooks of the year. C.B.L. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      Starred review from September 1, 2022

      This memoir weaves the threads that join to create Nanette, Gadsby's breakthrough stand-up comedy performance that won lots of awards in 2017-18. Included is a history lesson of LGBTQ+ rights in Australia, personal info about Gadsby and her family, and the trauma she endured as a queer person undiagnosed on the autism spectrum and with ADHD as well. Nanette was reviewed as transformational comedy, impactful, brilliant, and occasionally accused of being not funny at all. Gadsby is a consummate performer. Her narration puts an indelible mark on the stories she tells. Listening to her voice and to this perfectly produced audio feels like a privilege. The best way to understand her story is to hear her tell it. This darkly funny and disarmingly frank memoir gives listeners insight into Gadsby, who is unapologetically doing her thing and not caring what anyone else thinks, which in itself is a thrilling stance. VERDICT Highly recommended for all libraries.--Christa Van Herreweghe

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from March 14, 2022
      In this stunning debut, Emmy Award–winning comedian Gadsby guides readers on a tour of her life that’s every bit as intimate, gutting, and untidy as the performance referenced in the title. Decades before international audiences met her through her 2018 Netflix comedy special, Nanette, Gadsby was a Tasmanian girl alienated from her peers in the ’80s by her autism, ADHD, and burgeoning lesbian identity—none of which, she reveals, she understood until she was much older. Though heavily affected by sexual abuse and rape in her youth and young adulthood that led to multiple misdiagnoses (“borderline personality disorder, bipolar, irritable bowel syndrome, too much fat, etc.”), Gadsby resists centering her abusers, instead offering a candid, often bawdy account of her nonlinear path toward healing—shaped by a gauntlet of therapists, a career in “mak a joke out of” her mental health, and her loving yet complex relationship with her family. To discourage readers from “fall into the trap of playing truth detective,” she eschews cohesive timelines and, in doing so, vividly evokes the “disorientation” of living with trauma. Meanwhile, humorous asides are scattered throughout by way of Terry Pratchett–esque footnotes—“Seriously... I am triggering all of the warnings.” This stirring tale of resilience laughs in the face of the “inspiration porn” industry. Agent: Laurie Liss, Sterling Lord Literistic.

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