Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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| Author | Chelsea Handler |
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| Cover artist | Michael Nagin (design) Zach Cordner (photo) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir/Comedy |
| Published | April 22, 2008 Simon Spotlight Entertainment |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 272 |
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| OCLC | 173640867 |
| 306.7092 22 | |
| LC Class | HQ801 .H3193 2008 |
| Preceded by | My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands |
| Followed by | Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang |
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea is a 2008 best-selling book by Chelsea Handler that was released on April 22, 2008, by Simon Spotlight Entertainment, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. The book is a collection of humorous and mostly autobiographical essays about her life. Handler has stated in an interview with Barnes & Noble that she waited to write a book with such stories with no concrete theme and wrote My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands with the theme of one-night stands to get her enough popularity for this sort of book to do well. The title is satirically modeled after the Judy Blume novel Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. As of 2008, with the release of Vodka, sales of her first book have since rocketed; the two titles have sold a combined 1.7 million copies, according to Nielsen BookScan and have both topped several best seller lists.
In 2011, a television pilot for NBC loosely based on the book was announced, starring Laura Prepon as Chelsea. It was eventually picked up as a series for the 2011-12 television season, with its title eventually shortened to Are You There, Chelsea?
In order to impress a fifth grade boy and to gain the respect of the girls at her school, Chelsea concocts a tall tale in which she is co-starring in a movie with Goldie Hawn. The lie quickly gets blown out of proportion, and things get even more complicated when Chelsea's father forces her to reveal the truth.
During her summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Chelsea pretends to be older than she is so that parents would allow her to babysit for money. After a few attempts, she gains renown as a babysitter, and the calls come pouring in. One of her calls, however is to look after a fourteen-year-old (even though Chelsea is really only twelve) and his "72-month-old" brother. She accepts, and chaos ensues.
Chelsea gets pulled over after drinking and driving, and is arrested and sent to the Sybil Brand Institute.
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