Some context – I deeply love Hyperbole and a Half, and one of the things about being an Allie Brosh fan is that since that book we’ve mostly been hanging about really really hoping that she’s okay because she went quiet and oh no. It has a lot of excellent drawings that look like they were drawn with a mouse in the Windows paint programme.Īnyway, onto the book I’m actually reviewing.

And also dogs, and what to do when a goose breaks into your house. It is very good, and I would describe it as an autobiographical, anecdotal piece about mental health and attempting to live with it when it breaks down. She battles anxiety, depression, annoying neighbors . . . and somehow, it cheers you right up.So, this is the kinda sequel to Hyperbole and a Half, which I don’t have a review of but I do recommend you read because it is fantastic and will make this book way easier to understand. Starting with the time she got stuck in a bucket at age 3, Brosh’s autobiographical comics thrust her into a variety of insane and sometimes heartbreaking scenes. Fear not, Allie Brosh fans: Solutions and Other Problems is every bit as hilarious and slyly poignant as 2013’s Hyperbole and a Half. “The book an author produces after a wildly popular debut has all eyes on it. “Brosh alternates sorrow with levity-funny childhood stories, more animal tales, and general musings on life and its lack of meaning or fairness-with grace that feels true to life.” Another standout from Brosh that is both heartening and heartbreaking.” In trying to overcome her weaknesses, by spending a night alone in the woods, she reminds us that it’s okay not to be okay. “Through it all, is refreshingly vulnerable and honest. This achingly accurate and consistently hilarious comic memoir finds Brosh moving forward and becoming a stronger, braver storyteller page by page.” spidery and demented digital portraits, a visual expression of fun-house mirror anxiety, fits her material perfectly. Like a millennial James Thurber, Brosh has a knack for seeding a small, choice detail that snowballs into existential chaos. For Brosh’s millions of fans, this is well worth the wait.”

reliably channels the simplicity of a child or the innocence of an animal and tells raucous, heartbreaking stories that reflect the hidden parts of us all. “Brosh’s storytelling is so distinctive and compelling it’s like suddenly running in to a friend you feared was lost forever.

Solutions and other problems reviews