A review by cokechukwu
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
4.0
This is a fantastic debut essay collection from a promising young writer. Koul's essays are at turns hilarious and vulgar, tender and warm. She expertly finds the absurdity in the mundane, in the style of David Sedaris (one of her idols), and brings the same deft touch to topics like dressing room mishaps and knuckle shaving as she does to weighty issues like racism and rape culture. I think all brown/immigrant girls will see a little of themselves and their families in her and hers.
The real MVP of the book though is Koul's father, whose stubbornness and sardonic humor make him difficult to live with, as she tells it, but have also been inherited by his fiery, funny daughter.
The real MVP of the book though is Koul's father, whose stubbornness and sardonic humor make him difficult to live with, as she tells it, but have also been inherited by his fiery, funny daughter.