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Welcome to the United States of Anxiety PDF-New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster is here to help you chill the hell out.

When did USA become shorthand for the United States of Anxiety? From the moment Americans wake up, we’re bombarded with all-new terrifying news about crime, the environment, politics, and stroke-inducing foods we’ve been enjoying for years. We’re judged by social media’s faceless masses, pressured into maintaining a Pinterest-perfect home, and expected to base our self-worth on retweets, faves, likes, and followers. Our collective FOMO, and the disparity between the ideal and reality, is leading us to spend more and feel worse. No wonder we’re getting twitchy. Save for an Independence Day–style alien invasion, how do we begin to escape from the stressors that make up our days?

Jen Lancaster is here to take a hard look at our elevating anxieties, and with self-deprecating wit and levelheaded wisdom, she charts a path out of the quagmire that keeps us frightened of the future and ashamed of our imperfectly perfect human lives. Take a deep breath, and her advice, and you just might get through a holiday dinner without wanting to disown your uncle.

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Jen Lancaster is a New York Times bestselling author who has sold well over a million books. From Bitter Is the New Black to The Tao of Martha, Jen has made a career out of documenting her attempts to shape up, grow up, and have it all – sometimes with disastrous results. Her NYT bestselling novel Here I Go Again received three starred reviews (Kirkus, Booklist, Publishers Weekly). Her memoir I Regret Nothing was named an Best Book of the Year, and she’s regularly a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards. She loves bad TV, terrible wine, and will die before she gives up her Oxford comma.

Jen can often be seen on The Today Show, as well as CBS This Morning, Fox News, NPR All Things Considered, among others. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and her many ill-behaved dogs and cats. Visit her website: jenlancaster.com, Twitter: @altgeldshrugged, Instagram: @jennsylvania, or Facebook.com/authorjenlancaster.

Hear the stories behind Jen’s books on The Stories We’d Tell in Bars podcast, available on iTunes, Podbean, Spreaker, GooglePlay, and iHeartRadio, among other entities.

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Identification Number ‏ : ‎ B081Z29C6T
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little A (October 1, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 1, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4886 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 289 pages
Page numbers source International Standard Book Number ‏ : ‎ 1542007925
Lending ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
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Dori Espar “I’m honestly having a really hard time trying to figure out what this book was about. I finished it because it seemed promising to begin with – it was funny and it revealed some very interesting facts making me think about different things in my own life that cause me anxiety. Although the figures quoted were always about the US and the American society, the feelings the book describes are highly relatable to any national. Her dark humour lightens the mood even when talking about more serious topics. Her writing style is funny and light hearted. It was all great but then as I progressed with my reading I started to wonder where the book was going and what the point was. I honestly think even Lancaster could not answer that. It became incredibly hard to follow, the book being a big pile of interesting news titles cut and pasted. She wandered from the point so many times, I didn’t understand how some of the topics were even relevant to what she had set out to discuss in the chapter. At times I had the feeling I was reading her memoir. Reading for the 20th time about her decision of not having kids was plain frustrating. I understood the first time and no, I have not forgotten since you last mentioned it 2 pages ago. That being said, the positives that I had noted at the start continued throughout the book, it was funny and it did cover interesting topics. It just didn’t make any sense as a whole.”

Rock “In an intro letter dated March 21st, 2020, only one week into quarantine, the author reveals herself to be making the final edits to this novel. It goes further to say “My hope is that when this book comes out in October, we’re a nation of healthy and happy hand-washers.” Yeaaah, probably should have kept editing and delayed this release. You would think a book called “Welcome to the United States of Anxiety” couldn’t be MORE appropriate for these times. Unfortunately, it’s the total opposite, and a lot of what she wrote here just no longer applies. I don’t think anyone is having anxiety about fashion when they can barely leave their homes.

I’ve enjoy her writing and humor so I tried to keep an open mind but for a book designed to “help you chill the hell out” this one missed the mark. The whole idea of the book is to try to make you feel less anxious by pointing out how much better things are now than they used to be. But the NOW written about in this book is not the NOW any of us are currently living. The world has changed a LOT in the past 6 months. While I found her previous work mostly relatable, this one was not for me.

Excerpt: “Bottom line? The data supports that THESE are the best of times.
So… why the hell does it feel like the end of days?
Why does it seem like it’s about to rain locusts? Why am I cuffing my pants for the coming rivers of blood? What happened to make us masses suddenly so afraid of everything? How did the USA become shorthand for the United States of Anxiety?”

These questions that were written jokingly a year or more ago now have obvious, frightening answers. Because everything is awful, Susan. The humor is kind of lost when it legitimately does feel like the beginning of an apocalypse. And much of that data used to support her arguments is already outdated. Most Americans consider right now the worst time of their lives and it’s hard to disagree. If only we could go back to a time when it was something as trivial as social media likes causing anxiety. I miss ‘FOMO’. I wish there were actually things going on I could worry about missing out on.

It’s really not the author’s fault so I feel terrible giving this book a poor rating but I can only give my honest opinion. I still like her writing style. The publisher is more to blame for not holding or re-working the book. It’s a shame it wasn’t released last year, I think I might actually have been able to enjoy it then. Now it’s just depressing where it’s meant to be uplifting. And very shallow. Not that I was expecting a deep philosophical read here, but I was still disappointed in the surface level observations. It was just all so obvious, no creative new takes or clever advice to be found here. Most of it seems silly and irrelevant through the COVID lens.

It was disjointed at times and while she often repeated the same ideas in different ways, she sometimes contradicted herself as well. One recurring theme was that you will have less anxiety if you use social media less. VERY recurring. Besides the DUH factor there, this just gets annoying for those of us that have already given it up, or never really got into it to begin with. If ONLY that was the source of my anxiety.

There’s still some humorous lines and random interesting tidbits in here that might make it worth the read for some, but if you actually need help with anxiety, this book is not gonna do it for you.”

Jamie Bee “When I first opened this book, I loved the cartoon of Maslow’s hierarchy at the beginning. Most of us who’ve been to college in the last 30 or 40 years are familiar with this pyramid of need. The book is broadly structured around this hierarchy. The author is a Gen-Xer like me, so much of what she related about her pre-tech childhood was very much like my life as well—before computers were in every home, when the internet was for academics only… and when social media and texting had not yet come into existence. The author writes in a witty, humorous tone—and it is labeled as Humorous Nonfiction in the First Reads newsletter—with many of her comments self-deprecating. I found her head an interesting one to be with, and for the most part, I enjoyed being along for the ride. By the way, there is some mild profanity in this book, but not overly much. I am one who usually has a problem with swearing in books, but it wasn’t enough to bother me. Despite the all-encompassing sounding title, this is a very personal piece of nonfiction. We see the world through the lens of one woman’s life and observations. So whether you like this book or not will depend on whether you appreciate that kind of intensely personal look at broader topics. Whether you like it may also depend on your generation. Millennials may not “get” some of what she is talking about.

This book was clearly written before our current crisis, and the author actually mentions right at the start of the book that she was in final edits when all of it started back in March 2020. I wonder if it would be a different book had she written it instead of edited it during this time. I don’t know about you, but what I feel anxiety about has certainly shifted during what already feels like a long haul at nearly six months in. The things I might have had anxiety about last year are completely different now. This might sound paradoxical, but I presently feel anxiety about far fewer things because what is happening worldwide now has sharpened the focus and burned away what is unimportant. And, much of what she addresses as anxiety producing in the modern world is ultimately unimportant (which is part of the point she is trying to get across), so I give it far less thought now. In some ways, this book looks at a time when most saw the world quite differently as well. At points, it seems almost quaint. That made it fun, along with the humor, in its own way.”

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