"This memoir of unthinkably tragic loss is a heart-breaking, hilarious, brilliantly-written page-turner."
Outrageously raw and outrageously funny, Krystal Evans’ The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp memoir sees the comedian share the tragedy of losing her six-year-old sister in a house fire when she was just fourteen.
While Evans demonstrably lived to tell this tale, she was left with severe PTSD and burns, which is how she wound up as the “hottest girl at burn camp”, a blackly comic phrase coined by a friend of the comedian that played a huge role in the shaping of this book, in that it provided Evans with “the perfect way to explain the clash of humour and sadness” that would define it.
Exploring a key question that’s long haunted Evans (“How did I manage to outrun not only the fire, but its aftermath? And more than that — how have I emerged not only sane, but as a person who tells jokes for a living?”), the power of The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp resonates beyond the author’s particular circumstances, and will surely chime strongly with readers who’ve experienced comparably traumatic events. Above all though, this is an edgy, heart-breaking, funny book that reveals Evans’ remarkable resilience and unique coming-of-age journey.
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