Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them
  • Published: 3 May 2022
  • ISBN: 9780143135869
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $35.00

Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them

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Deeply funny, moving, and urgent writing about a country that can feel broken into pieces and the light that shines through the cracks, from Irish comedian Maeve Higgins, author of Maeve in America.
 

Deeply funny, moving, and urgent writing about a country that can feel broken into pieces and the light that shines through the cracks, from Irish comedian Maeve Higgins, author of Maeve in America.
 
As an eternally curious outsider, Maeve Higgins can see that the United States is still an experiment. Some parts work well and others really don’t, but that doesn't stop her from loving the place and the people that make it. With piercing political commentary in a sweet and salty tone, these essays unearth answers to the questions we all have about this country we call home; the beauty of it all and the dark parts too.
 
Maeve attends the 2020 Border Security Expo to better understand the future of our borders, and finds herself at The Alamo surrounded by queso and homemade rifles. A chance encounter with a statue of a teenage horseback rider causes her to interrogate the purpose of monuments, this sends her hurtling through the past, connecting Ireland’s revolutionary history with the struggles of Black Americans today. And after mistaking edibles for innocent candies, Maeve gets way too high at Paper Source.
 
Most of all, Maeve wants to leave this country and this planet better than she found it. That may well be impossible, but it certainly means showing love. Lots of it, even when it's difficult to do so. Threaded through these pieces is love for strangers, love for friends who show up right on time, love for trees, love for Tom Hardy, love for those with differing opinions, love for the glamorous older women of Brighton Beach with tattooed eyeliner and gold jewelry, love for everybody on this train.
  • Published: 3 May 2022
  • ISBN: 9780143135869
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $35.00
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Praise for Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them

Praise for Maeve Higgins
 
"If Tina Fey and David Sedaris had a daughter, she would be Maeve Higgins."--Glamour
 
“If this is your first time reading Maeve Higgins, I’m jealous. She’s hilarious, poignant, conversational, and my favorite Irish import since U2. You’re in for a treat.”
—Phoebe Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of You Can’t Touch My Hair

“Maeve Higgins is hilarious. She is the true Irish voice of our American generation.”
—Amy Schumer
 
“Sharp-eyed . . . deeply funny and astute.”
—People (The Best New Books)

“Hilarious . . . Maeve in America lives up to the hype. It’s chock-a-block full of personal tales of both success and failure, all told with that elusive combination of self-deprecation and grandeur.”
—Entertainment Weekly

“One of the most charming exports to the American comedy scene is Irish writer Maeve Higgins. . . . Higgins’s vibe [is] wary but hopeful, clever but earnest. [The] sensibility [that] runs through: deep empathy and genuine curiosity about the American experience of newcomers . . . with more Michael Fassbender jokes, and a bit more self-deprecating humor (stop, Maeve, you’re perfect).”
—Maris Kreizman, Vulture (New Paperbacks You Should Read This August)

“[A beach read] that is actually beach appropriate.”
—New York Magazine (The Approval Matrix: Brilliant)

“[An] ingenious collection of essays that examine the personal and the political, offering an incredible outsider’s view of America’s current cultural climate and its place within the world. . . . Higgins’s insightful and wacky essays will not only make you laugh; you'll also nod in recognition and sigh in solidarity. . . . It’s her outsider’s perspective that makes her commentary of current day America so unique and critical at a time when migrants and immigrants are fighting to have their voices heard.”
—Esquire (The Best Books of 2018 (So Far))

“Celebrate the person who stands out from the crowd with [this] memoir from [a] self-described outsider: Maeve in America, Maeve Higgins’s hilarious essay collection about leaving Ireland in her thirties, and finding herself in New York.”
—Buzzfeed (The Best Books From 2018 For Every Kind Of Reader)