Bitter With Baggage Seeks Same: The Life and Times of Some Chickens Tanen,Sloane

Bitter With Baggage Seeks Same: The Life and Times of Some Chickens Tanen,SloaneSloane Tanen is a photographer who decided the best way to process her messy, neurotic, deeply relatable inner life was to stage it with plastic toy chickens. The result is this brilliantly weird hybrid of memoir and visual comedy part confessional, part satire, all hilarious. Each chapter pairs Tanen's sharp, self deprecating essays about dating disasters, career anxiety, and general existential flailing with photographs of miniature chickens acting

crooked politicians

If you do take this note to the police

he just wants a normal life

and meal planning

This photographic journey captures the raw

both must decide if pride matters more than happiness

and satisfying in that classic "finally falling for your own spouse" way

and this time someone he loves has vanished

Enter Amelia Howard

A Regency orphan with a sharp tongue and zero interest in propriety

Years of struggling with letters that jump and blur have left him ashamed

I will kill a lovely blonde schoolteacher