A review by offbalance80
Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. by Rob Delaney

3.0

It was my love of the Amazon original series Catastrophe that caused me to pick up Delaney's memoir - I figured that one half of the creative team behind that brilliant series would make for a good read, and I was not wrong. Delaney's book contains some terrific essays on his misadventures with romance, growing up, and learning how to be sober. His experiences with the latter are the most compelling, Delaney goes into great (but genial) detail about his mishaps and even time spent in serious rehab and a halfway house. Still, I would have appreciated less talk of shit in all of its forms, and I was similarly put off by the way he talked about his kids. I'm so glad he loves his sons, truly happy. But his descriptions of smelling them made me wonder if he was just an addict looking for a different fix. Maybe because I'm not an addict OR a parent, I'm just not getting the joke. This is a solid outing, otherwise.