Friday Freebie: Happily Ali After by Ali Wentworth

Congratulations to Nancy Bekofske, winner of last week's Friday Freebie contest: The Other Joseph by Skip Horack.

This week's book giveaway is Happily Ali After: And Other Fairly True Tales by Ali Wentworth. Read on for more information about the book...

The actress, comedian, media darling, and New York Times bestselling author picks up where she left off in Ali in Wonderland: And Other Tall Tales, dissecting modern life—and this time, on a mission of self-improvement—in a series of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes. Moved by a particularly inspirational tweet one day, Ali Wentworth (wife of George Stephanopoulos) resolves to live by the pithy maxims she discovers in her feeds. What begins as a sort of self-help project quickly turns into something far grander—and increasingly funnier—as the tweets she once viewed with irony become filled with increasing metaphysical importance. And thus begins her “Unhappiness Project.” It’s not long before Ali expands her self-improvement quest to include parenting, relationship, fitness (or lack thereof), and dieting advice. The results are painfully (at times literally) clear: when it comes to self-help, sometimes you should leave it to the professionals. At once endearing and hilarious, thoughtful and absurd, Happily Ali After is a thoroughly entertaining collection from “the girlfriend you want to have a glass of wine with, the one who makes you laugh because she sees the funny and the absurd in everything” (Huffington Post).

If you’d like a chance at winning Happily Ali After, simply email your name and mailing address to

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Put FRIDAY FREEBIE in the e-mail subject line.  One entry per person, please.  Despite its name, the Friday Freebie runs all week long and remains open to entries until midnight on June 4, at which time I’ll draw the winning name.  I’ll announce the lucky reader on June 5.  If you’d like to join the mailing list for the once-a-week newsletter, simply add the words “Sign me up for the newsletter” in the body of your email.  Your email address and other personal information will never be sold or given to a third party (except in those instances where the publisher requires a mailing address for sending Friday Freebie winners copies of the book).

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