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Ali's Well That Ends Well: Tales of Desperation and a Little Inspiration
New York Times bestselling author Ali Wentworth offers a comedic look at family, friendship, and lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic in her new collection of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.
Like many, Ali Wentworth spent the pandemic seesawing between highs, lows, and baking an unnecessary amount of chocolate cake. Between binging every tv show in existence to conquering TikTok to becoming a (semi) empty-nester, Ali experienced her share of turmoil (including an early case of Covid), but she also grew a little, learned a lot, and found comfort in some unexpected people and places.
In Ali's Well That Ends Well, Wentworth turns her gimlet eye to the year no one saw coming. With her signature irreverent style, she shares the most hysterical, absurd, and sometimes trying episodes that her family endured during the terrible global pandemic. Thoroughly relatable, absolutely charming, and filled with moments both hilarious and poignant, this terrific collection once again showcases the comedic genius of a beloved star who is "the girlfriend you want to have a glass of wine with, the one who makes you laugh because she sees the funny and the absurd in everything" (Huffington Post).
Like many, Ali Wentworth spent the pandemic seesawing between highs, lows, and baking an unnecessary amount of chocolate cake. Between binging every tv show in existence to conquering TikTok to becoming a (semi) empty-nester, Ali experienced her share of turmoil (including an early case of Covid), but she also grew a little, learned a lot, and found comfort in some unexpected people and places.
In Ali's Well That Ends Well, Wentworth turns her gimlet eye to the year no one saw coming. With her signature irreverent style, she shares the most hysterical, absurd, and sometimes trying episodes that her family endured during the terrible global pandemic. Thoroughly relatable, absolutely charming, and filled with moments both hilarious and poignant, this terrific collection once again showcases the comedic genius of a beloved star who is "the girlfriend you want to have a glass of wine with, the one who makes you laugh because she sees the funny and the absurd in everything" (Huffington Post).
Editorial Reviews
"You know I love a funny woman who can be so candid, honest, and poignant-and still make me laugh!" - Busy Phillips
"Ali is still one of the funniest people I've ever met. She's the fizz in the flat water of life." - Jerry Seinfeld
"Only Ali can mine the humor and poignancy of a pandemic. It is so insightful and so damn funny! I want to go clamming with her!" - Molly Shannon
"In the latest installment of her best-selling life-as-Ali chronicles, Ali's Well That Ends Well, Ali Wentworth takes us once again into her delightful and dizzying world. But this time we get right into bed with her-her sick bed, that is-as she battles aches, fears and lockdown-delirium as an early victim of Covid. But in Ali's hilariously deft hands, the frightening ordeal is braided with thoughtful life lessons. I loved this book." - Marlo Thomas
"Wentworth strikes gold in this hilarious, touching, and wonderfully frank look at her life during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. . . . Throughout, Wentworth delivers her quips and quibbles with a perceptive insight that's sure to keep fans entertained while knowingly nodding their heads. Life for Wentworth is one big adventure, and lucky for readers, she brings them along for the ride." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Laugh-out-loud. . . . A light, amusing work for fans of Wentworth's quirky sense of humor." - Kirkus Reviews
"Ali is still one of the funniest people I've ever met. She's the fizz in the flat water of life." - Jerry Seinfeld
"Only Ali can mine the humor and poignancy of a pandemic. It is so insightful and so damn funny! I want to go clamming with her!" - Molly Shannon
"In the latest installment of her best-selling life-as-Ali chronicles, Ali's Well That Ends Well, Ali Wentworth takes us once again into her delightful and dizzying world. But this time we get right into bed with her-her sick bed, that is-as she battles aches, fears and lockdown-delirium as an early victim of Covid. But in Ali's hilariously deft hands, the frightening ordeal is braided with thoughtful life lessons. I loved this book." - Marlo Thomas
"Wentworth strikes gold in this hilarious, touching, and wonderfully frank look at her life during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. . . . Throughout, Wentworth delivers her quips and quibbles with a perceptive insight that's sure to keep fans entertained while knowingly nodding their heads. Life for Wentworth is one big adventure, and lucky for readers, she brings them along for the ride." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Laugh-out-loud. . . . A light, amusing work for fans of Wentworth's quirky sense of humor." - Kirkus Reviews
Readers Top Reviews
Linda Juarez Smit
This book was too hard to put down. I hated when I was at the end. Ali is a wonderful writer.
kathleen gLinda J
Wentworth manages, against the grain, to make the COVID years funny in this series of short snappy essays that made me laugh more than once. She got sick early on and her trenchant observations of her illness are more lighthearted than I expect she actually was at the time. It's her look at the impact of the lock down - of living with her husband (who can't close a cabinet door), her daughters, her neighbors-where this collections shines. Who among us didn't binge a TV series or argue about things that we would have pushed off? Thanks to Edelweiss for the ARC. A fun read that will make you nod your head in recognition and smile.
Monica AbdallaMo
Me parece un libro facil de leer fresco y divertido es una manera maja de aceptar los hechos inevitables que ocurren en tu vida y que de una u otra manera debes enfrentar y que mejor manera que hacerlo de una forma divertida y buscando la parte buena de todo.
JW, Smyrna, GAMon
Never disappointing! Hilarious! Entertaining! These are only a few of the many many reasons we love Ali! Will follow her forever!
CJW, Smyrna, GAMo
This book has 21 individual “chapters”, with a total of about 185 pages. Throughout these chapters Wentworth describes some of her experiences in the post-pandemic world, starting in 2020. She starts off with her testing positive for COVID in the early days of the pandemic, and she uses her clever comedic style to describe how strange her experience was. She recalls some of her more amusing stories and illness-induced hallucinations, and her attempts to adjust to the new normal. This book was pretty amusing, but Wentworth does have a certain style that might not be everyone's cup of tea. Each chapter feels a bit like a blog entry from a writer trying to inject as much humor as possible into real life stories. It wasn't exactly my favorite type of book to read, but a few chapters did make me smile and it was an easy, fast read.
