A quiet revolution of choosing authenticity over approval.
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In i wish i was worse, Shirin Delalat invites us into the quiet revolution of choosing authenticity over approval.
Forget the tidy, redemptive memoir. This one is a scalpel disguised as a story. Darkly funny, deliberately provocative, and painfully precise. With chapters that feel like whispered confessions and inconvenient truths, Shirin takes you through the moments she stayed quiet when she shouldn’t have, and the ones she didn’t. And paid for it.
Some chapters will make you laugh. Some will sting. All of them are honest.
This isn’t a journey of redemption. It’s a rebellion. Because sometimes choosing yourself means disappointing everyone else. And sometimes burning bridges is the only way to see the road clearly.
What emerges is a portrait of a life lived on her own terms.
I didn’t expect to love this memoir this much. I didn’t expect it to have teeth—to bite, to draw blood, to scorch, to shake the core of my own long-buried truths. But it does. Its rawness exposes the ways we let our vulnerabilities stay buried, hidden behind silence. This is one of the best memoirs I have read in years.
Nilufer Ozmekik
Delalat’s voice is undeniable, with sarcasm, wit, humor, self-deprecation, and just enough tenderness to keep things real. She is worse in the absolute best sense of the word.
Pauline Villanueva
This book was a reckoning amongst the ruins of the sh*t I thought I had figured out. I loved it. I hated it too, sometimes. But it was so visceral, so powerful and so REAL that I couldn’t look away. This book is art. I’ll probably never read it again, and I’ll definitely never stop thinking about it.
Danielle
This book should be required reading for everyone, but especially to recovering people pleasers and those shrinking into boxes in which they don’t belong; there are few books that encourage rebellion with such heart.
krk
Darkly funny.
Slightly unhinged.
Difficult in a fun way.
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