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Language
  
English

Pages
  
336

Originally published
  
16 August 2016

Genre
  
Autobiography

Page count
  
336

3.8/5
Goodreads

Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
August 16, 2016

ISBN
  
1501139886

Author
  
Amy Schumer

Publisher
  
Simon & Schuster

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Awards
  
Goodreads Choice Awards Best Humor

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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo is a humorous autobiographical book by American stand-up comedian and actress Amy Schumer. It topped The New York Times Best Seller list shortly after its release in 2016.

Contents

The book addresses subjects such as gun violence in the United States, sexual assault and consent, domestic violence, as well as more personal issues such as her troubled relationship with her mother and her father's multiple sclerosis.

The book's title is a reference to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Amy schumer on the sexual assault story in the girl with the lower back tattoo


Reception

The book received generally favorable reviews from critics. Isabella Biedenharn of Entertainment Weekly gave the book a B+, writing that the book was "full of advice—and not just the tongue-in-cheek kind you might expect from a stand-up comedian" and that it was "much more like a straightforward memoir than even [Schumer] appears to believe", summing up her review stating that the book was "far less a portable joke factory than it is a real, deep dive into Schumer’s life."

Heidi Stevens of the Chicago Tribune wrote that when a celebrity "offers a self-reveal" it's "an exercise in either vanity or courage", but that Schumer's was "mostly the latter", and that "even the parts that veer into the former are witty enough to make you glad you stuck around." Lincee Ray of the Associated Press said that "readers will laugh and cry, and may put the book down from moments of honesty that result in uncomfortable realistic details from her life."

References

The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo Wikipedia