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Ten Steps to Nanette

A Memoir Situation

by Hannah Gadsby
Hannah Gadsby
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The memoir from Australia's much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and self-described swan-song, Nanette, played to sold-out houses in Australia, the UK and the US. Its launch on Netflix, and subsequent Emmy and Peabody wins, took Nanette (and Hannah) to the world.
'There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.' Hannah Gadsby, Nanette
Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared that she was quitting stand-up. Now, she takes us through the defining moments in her life that led to the creation of Nanette and her powerful decision to tell the truth — no matter the cost.
Gadsby's unique stand-up special Nanette was a viral success that left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her ability to create both tension and laughter in a single moment. But while her worldwide fame might have looked like an overnight sensation, her path from open mic to the global stage was hard-fought and anything but linear.
Ten Steps to Nanette traces Gadsby's growth as a queer person from Tasmania-where homosexuality was illegal until 1997-to her ever-evolving relationship with comedy, to her struggle with adult diagnoses of autism and ADHD, and finally to the backbone of Nanette - the renouncement of self-deprecation, the rejection of misogyny, and the moral significance of truth-telling.
Equal parts harrowing and hilarious, 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.
"Hannah is a Promethean force, a revolutionary talent...This hilarious, touching, and sometimes tragic book is all about where her fires were lit." EMMA THOMPSON
'Gadsby wields her craft like a weapon, lancing out the trauma and forcing us to look at it.' THE GUARDIAN
'As uproariously funny as it is profoundly furious.' NEW YORKER on Nanette
'The laughs of her show are a means to an end, which is, at its core, a ferocious attack on comedy itself.' NEW YORK TIMES
'Nanette is the kind of work that leaves you shaken. Not because it's really funny (it really is), or because it's equally heartbreaking, but because it finds a fusion of those two modes that's incandescent.'
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  • Release date

    May 1, 2022

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781004085323
      • File size: 397174 KB
      • Duration: 13:47:26

  • 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
    • 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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