A Field Guide to Awkward Silences

"Washington Post"columnist Alexandra Petri turns her satirical eye on her own life in this hilarious new memoir...
"Most twentysomethings spend a lot of time avoiding awkwardness.
Not Alexandra Petri."
Afraid of rejection? Alexandra Petri has auditioned for "America s Next Top Model." Af [...]
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"Washington Post"columnist Alexandra Petri turns her satirical eye on her own life in this hilarious new memoir...
"Most twentysomethings spend a lot of time avoiding awkwardness.
Not Alexandra Petri."
Afraid of rejection? Alexandra Petri has auditioned for "America s Next Top Model." Afraid of looking like an idiot? Alexandra Petri lost "Jeopardy " by answering Who is that dude? on national TV. Afraid of bad jokes? Alexandra Petri won an international pun championship.
Petri has been a debutante, reenacted the Civil War, and fended off suitors at a "Star Wars" convention while wearing a Jabba the Hutt suit. One time, she let some cult members she met on the street baptize her, just to be polite. She s a connoisseur of the kind of awkwardness that most people spend whole lifetimes trying to avoid. If John Hodgman and Amy Sedaris had a baby they would never let Petri babysit it.
But Petri is here to tell you: Everything you fear is not so bad. Trust her. She s tried it. And in the course of her misadventures, she s learned that there are worse things out there than awkwardness and that interesting things start to happen when you stop caring what people think."