The ‘hilarious and poignant’ story of 1 chronically anxious woman’s yearlong quest to seek out the adventures she’s spent her lifestyle avoiding (Cheryl Strayed).

For some of her life (and even during her years as the host of a favorite radio show), Courtenay Hameister lived in circumstances of near-constant dread and anxiety. She fretted about everything. Her age group. Her size. Her romantic prospects. How likely it had been that she would get hit by a bus along the way home.

Until a few years ago, that’s, when, about Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things in her mid-forties, she decided to fight against her debilitating anxieties. She would spend a 12 months doing all the things that scared her — items that the average indivdual might consider performing to get a half second before deciding: ‘nope.’

Things such as: going to a fellatio course. She do that. She also spent an afternoon inside a sensory deprivation container, got (legally) saturated in the center of a workday, had a session with a professional cuddler, braved twenty-eight first dates, and (maybe scariest of most) actually met somebody who might possibly appreciate her for who she is.

Refreshing, relatable, and pee-your-pants funny, Ok Fine Whatever can be Courtenay’s hold-nothing-back account of her travels on leading lines of Mere Human Girl vs. Fear, reminding us that actually the tiniest quantity of bravery continues to be bravery, which regardless of who you are, it’s possible to combat complacency and be vivid, or at least bold-ish, just a little at a time.

‘You guys, this book is f*cking funny.’ — Chelsea Handler