This image is the cover for the book 11,002 Things to Be Miserable About

11,002 Things to Be Miserable About

Some people have 14,000 Things to Be Happy About. You’re not one of them.

11,002 Things to Be Miserable About is a list of all the reasons NOT to wake up in the morning. Ironically enough, when you put all of them under one cover, it’s actually very funny. This decidedly absurd inventory of misery is perfect for sardonic and disaffected youth, for people seeking gifts for Traumatic Event Birthdays (like twenty-one, twenty-five, thirty, forty, and, well, anything after forty), and for anyone else with an offbeat sense of humor. Enjoy. Some of the entries are pretty basic, like imitation crabmeat, student loans, and David Hasselhoff, but other entries actually include educational things, like dust mites, which make up one-third of the weight of a six-year-old pillow. See, you can laugh and learn.

Lia Romeo, Nick Romeo

Lia Romeo is an award-winning comic playwright who has worked as a PR account executive, a receptionist, and a sandwich artist, all of which have equipped her superbly for writing this book.

Nick Romeo is a fiction writer and public intellectual of whom the public is not yet aware. His current day job has sunk him into a deep malaise, which he has little hope of ever escaping.

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