Lindy West - Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane
Schedule
Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
COCA (Center of Creative Arts) | Clayton, MO
Lindy West - Adult Braces: Driving Myself SanePresented by Left Bank Books, Left Bank Books Foundation, & COCA
Please help us welcome one of our favorite authors Lindy West as she returns to St. Louis to discuss her new memoir Adult Braces. In New York Times bestselling author Lindy West's ambitious memoir, she brings readers along on an uproarious cross-country road trip as she unpacks her last few tumultuous years, rediscovers herself, and reinvents her marriage in the process.
Lindy will sign books and take photos with you!
"Lindy is doing the kind of naked self-examination that most people are too chickenshit to do even under the guidance of a trained therapist, and somehow also manages to make it hilarious? All killer, no filler."—Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author of Quietly Hostile
Lindy West will sign copies! Signed copies will be available to be mailed anywhere in the country. For signed copies, please order before noon on March 18th.
Join us at COCA - Center for Creative Arts
6880 Washington Ave
St. Louis, MO 63130
Please purchase an Admit One or Admit Two Ticket for this event. Each ticket will include one copy of Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane.
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About the Author
Lindy West is the author of three books: the New York Times bestselling memoir Shrill as well as the essay collections The Witches Are Coming and Shit, Actually. Lindy is a former contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and her work has appeared in This American Life, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vulture, Jezebel, and others. She is the co-host of the comedy podcast Text Me Back and the author of the e-mail newsletter Butt News. Lindy was a writer and executive producer on Shrill, the Hulu comedy adapted from her memoir, and she co-wrote and produced the independent feature film Thin Skin. She lives on the Olympic Peninsula in rural Washington state.
About Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane
In New York Times bestselling author Lindy West's ambitious memoir, she brings readers along on an uproarious cross-country road trip as she unpacks her last few tumultuous years, rediscovers herself, and reinvents her marriage in the process.
Through Shrill--the book and then the Hulu series--Lindy West became an inspiration. To this day she is stopped on the street and hailed as a beacon of empowerment by women who felt badly for not conforming to a narrow set of societal norms--thin, straight, compliant. But behind the scenes, Lindy never felt like she was the self-actualized woman fans made her out to be. When she found herself in the throes of a deep depression, with her marriage and sense of self-worth hanging in the balance, she knew she needed to make a change.
In Adult Braces, Lindy shares the story of her rock bottom, and of the journey she took to claw her way out of it. With her trademark candor and sense of humor, she examines her post- Shrill emotional implosion, her shifting feelings about traditional marriage, and her search for her long-lost self. She also tracks the highs and lows of her journey, from eye-opening natural wonders and kitschy roadside attractions to lackluster tourist traps and campground epiphanies.
The result is an engaging and laugh-out-loud narrative of becoming as Lindy transforms from a passenger into the active navigator of her own life.
Where is it happening?
COCA (Center of Creative Arts), 6880 Washington Avenue,University City, Missouri, Clayton, United States
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