The New York Times bestselling collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect.
Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, Twilight, and Into the Woods, Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird, and тАЬ10 percent defiant.тАЭ
At the ripe age of thirteen, she had already resolved to тАЬkeep the crazy inside my head where it belonged. Forever. But hereтАЩs the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.тАЭ In Scrappy Little Nobody, she invites readers inside her brain, sharing extraordinary and charmingly ordinary stories with candor and winningly wry observations.
With her razor-sharp wit, Anna recounts the absurdities sheтАЩs experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture as only she canтАФfrom her unusual path to the performing arts (Vanilla Ice and baggy neon pants may have played a role) to her double life as a middle-school student who also starred on Broadway to her initial тАЬdating experimentsтАЭ (including only liking boys who didnтАЩt like her back) to reviewing a binder full of butt doubles to her struggle to live like an adult woman instead of a perpetual тАЬman-child.тАЭ
Enter AnnaтАЩs world and follow her rise from тАЬscrappy little nobodyтАЭ to somebody who dazzles on the stage, the screen, and now the pageтАФwith an electric, singular voice, at once familiar and surprising, sharp and sweet, funny and serious (well, not that serious).