Sara Barron

The up-and-coming writer and performer shares the funny bits of her life story, laying bare the occasionally raunchy, often mortifying details of her past, including an early attempt at writing cheesy porn, experiencing humiliating audition debacles, and encountering celebrities who just get confused when they hear the word "no." Original.

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People are Unappealing

Born the child of a homo and a hypochondriac (Okay, okay. Her dad’s not really a homosexual. He just acts like it. Her mom, however, really is a hypochondriac), Sara Barron never stood a chance of being normal. At age eleven, she starts writing porn (“He humped me wildly with his wiener”). At twelve, she gets mistaken for a trannie. The pre-op sort, no less. By seventeen, she's featured on the Jerry Springer Show. And that’s all before she hits New York. People Are Unappealing tells the strange, funny, and sometimes filthy stories of Sara Barron’s twisted suburban upbringing and deranged attempt at taking the Big Apple by storm–first as an actor (then a waiter), then a dancer (then a waiter), then a comic (then a waiter). It’s there that she meets the ex-boyfriend turned street clown. The silk pajama-clad poet. The OCD Xanax addict who refuses to have sex wearing any fewer than three condoms. Barron has a knack for attracting the unattractive. People Are Unappealing is her wickedly funny look at the dark side of humanity.

People Are Unappealing

Presents a humorous collection of autobiographical essays in which the author embraces some of life's most awkward moments and recalls incidents of her unusual childhood.

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