Save Yourself: A Memoir, Cameron Esposito

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Save Yourself
by Cameron Esposito
Paperback | March 22, 2022

Save Yourself is a bold, hilarious, and deeply human memoir from comedian Cameron Esposito, tracing her journey from Catholic kid who wanted to be a priest to an outspoken, genre-defying lesbian comic who learned how to survive by telling the truth.

With sharp wit and unflinching honesty, Esposito explores coming out in environments that were never designed to welcome her, navigating gender nonconformity, faith, feminism, ambition, love, and the slow work of learning how to stay alive as herself. This is not a coming-out tragedy or a tidy redemption arc. It is messy, funny, painful, sexy, and ultimately triumphant.

Esposito’s stories range from Catholic college campuses where queerness wasn’t protected, to the unexpected lessons of circus performance, to moments of heartbreak, self-doubt, and hard-won self-acceptance. Her voice is intimate and irreverent, balancing laugh-out-loud humor with moments of startling vulnerability.

More than a memoir of comedy or queerness alone, Save Yourself is a survival guide for anyone who grew up believing they were too much, too different, or not allowed to exist fully. It speaks directly to the fenced-in kid and the fearless adult still learning how to take up space.

This title is a remainder, offered at half the original cover price. Remainder copies are new and unread, but may show minor shelf wear.