Sucker Punch

Essays

De: Scaachi Koul

Narrado por: Scaachi Koul

“Koul reads the audiobook edition of her essays, her performance highlighting her sharp-witted humor and emotional vulnerability.” —Book Riot

This program is read by the author.

The long-awaited follow-up from one of the most original and hilarious voices writing today.

Scaachi Koul’s first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the issues of race, body image, love, friendship, and growing up the daughter of immigrants. When the time came to start writing her next book, Scaachi assumed she’d be updating her story with essays about her elaborate four-day wedding, settling down to domestic bliss, and continuing her never-ending arguments with her parents. Instead, the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Scaachi’s marriage fell apart, she lost her job, and her mother was diagnosed with cancer.

Sucker Punch is about what happens when the life you thought you’d be living radically changes course, everything you thought you knew about the world and yourself has tilted on its axis, and you have to start forging a new path forward. Scaachi employs her biting wit to interrogate her previous belief that fighting is the most effective tool for progress. She examines the fights she’s had—with her parents, her ex-husband, her friends, online strangers, and herself—all in an attempt to understand when a fight is worth having, and when it's better to walk away.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

Reseñas de la Crítica

<p>“<b>A beautiful, painful, funny, and ultimately inspiring account</b> of a marriage crumbling, told through Scaachi Koul’s distinct voice and trademark sense of humor. Brilliant.”<b>—Jennette McCurdy, author of the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>I’m Glad My Mom Died</i></b><br><br>“Scaachi Koul's <i>Sucker Punch</i> is an absolute knockout. An instantly essential entry into the modern divorce canon, Koul's collection of essays is packed full of <b>diamond-sharp writing, exemplary wit, eviscerating truths, and—most importantly—a rib-shattering amount of heart</b>. Here is Scaachi Koul at her most vulnerable, while somehow still casually holding onto her rightfully-earned crown as one of America's funniest living writers.”<b>—Isaac Fitzgerald, author of <i>Dirtbag, Massachusetts</i></b><br><br>“With a sharp wit and even sharper writing, Scaachi Koul writes a compulsively readable memoir that journeys into the dark heart of heterosexual love. <b>This book will have you howling with laughter, weeping with rage, and furiously turning every page</b>. <i>Sucker Punch</i> is an unapologetic story of one woman's fierce fight to keep those beautiful loud, funny, raw, tender, pugilistic pieces of herself in a world that wants to yank them away. This book is a beautiful bruiser.”<b>—Lyz Lenz, author of <i>This American Ex-Wife<br></i></b><br>“<i>Sucker Punch</i> is <b>a generous and gutting book about marriage and mothers and the inheritances we all carry.</b> Scaachi Koul’s genius here is stacking moments where you’ll burst out laughing, then pulling her own sucker punch: just when your heart is open, she sneaks in a turn that will make you weep. It’s a magic trick every time.”<b>—Elamin Abdelmahmoud, author of <i>Son of Elsewhere</i></b></p>

True to life, with a laugh thrown in

The author accurately describes so many life moments while making us laugh…at her story, but also at ourselves as her story pricks the skin for being so close to our own experiences.

Excellent!!

Loved Sucker Punch...powerful, funny, and thought provoking! Scaachi is a one of kind story teller!! Such honesty!

What a work of art

Koul knows how to call it. Damn, it was good and hearing her narrate it makes it even better. Thanks for this. I really enjoyed it.

Vulnerable yet funny and so so relatable!

The more I got to listen the more I loved it, going with the audiobook was definitely the best idea, Scaachi has a way with words but listening to her made everything hit so much closer and brought out some of the feelings that may get lost in writing. The book is filled with emotion, and I truly appreciate how vulnerable she is, looking forward to listening/reading more from her!

All the feels!

I appreciate the consideration for awareness of yourself and a partner and lack there of both post relationship. Great listen.