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She’s Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good

Bottom of the pile

10

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

2/100

Critics

17/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Mia Mercado

Publisher:

HarperOne

Date:

August 30, 2022

A millennial essayist at 'The Cut' on growing up in the Midwest and other topics.

What The Reviewers Say

Cari Dubiel,
Booklist
... hilarious.

Kirkus
The author delivers plenty of witty reflections, offering mostly casual commentary on the thickets of contemporary identity politics and the meretricious seductions of pop culture. The author is at her best when, in a distinctively quirky style, she documents her absorption as an adolescent in various TV dramas and assesses her conflicted status as an ambitious, attention-seeking introvert.

Publishers Weekly
... essays both snarky and sharp.