A mother, a manipulative, a sick father, toxic relations with mistreatment included… against all odds, the life of the hilarious and tongued Amy Schumer has not exactly been a bed of roses, quite the opposite. In the memoir ‘The girl with the tattoo above the ass’ (Against), the north american comic to be honest as never before, and is positioned in affairs, as hot as the sexual abuse or the politics of gun control in your country.
The summer that Amy Schumer met 13 years was the same in which her mother is bundled with the father of her best friend, that he did not talk ever, either in school or in the synagogue. In fact, Schumer met with the infidelity of his mother before his own father. For then, the progenitors of Schumer had already been through a bankruptcy that became poor in a blink of an eye: the comic was born in a hospital on the Upper East Side and travelled in a limousine the five blocks that separated him from his house; when he came to the university I had to work as a waitress to be able to eat. Years later, the father, an alcoholic who had been in rehab several times, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. “When I was fourteen years old, my father is fucked at an amusement park,” says the humorist in new york in a memoir with a wink feminist in the title, The girl with the tattoo above the ass (Against), that impact for its sincerity and its oil content.
“Our parents would have fucked all in one way or another. Form part of the natural order”, writes about the relationship is not healed all that remained Schumer with his mother, a manipulative man, until she turned 30. “That you take for your birth canal doesn’t mean you have all the answers (or none). Before you have you go around like idiots, moving the arms to not drown, as you do now.”
class=”icon-foto_16_g”> Amy Schumer’s little girl.
Another of the toughest moments of the book is when he recalls the two women victims of the shooting, the 23rd of July of 2015 took place in a movie theater Lafayette, Louisiana, on a pass from one of his movies, And suddenly you. “I am not a politician nor a jewish taimada who hates the NRA [National Rifle Association], which is, as I see some in certain areas of the country. Most members of the NRA are great people. The extras are their leaders”, he criticizes.
Not everything is a drama. The book includes trivia that will delight their fans, as the number of people that Schumer was lying (28), his poet favorite (Anne Sexton), things he hates (the holidays, the voice of Rod Stewart, the museums unless the Natural History and dinosaurs) and the number of times you have read your favorite book, Tortilla Flat (10).
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