What happened to Desiree Akhavan? This book offers painful answers
In You’re Embarrassing Yourself, the comic and filmmaker reveals the truth about her troubled life through jokes and aphorisms
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In You’re Embarrassing Yourself, the comic and filmmaker reveals the truth about her troubled life through jokes and aphorisms
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