In her book Self-Inflicted Wounds, comedian, actress, and cohost of CBS’s daytime hit show The Speak, Aisha Tyler recounts a series of epic mistakes and hilarious stories of crushing personal humiliation, and the non-public insights and authentic wisdom she gathered on the way.

The essays in Self-Inflicted Wounds are refreshingly and sometimes brutally honest, surprising, and laugh-out-loud funny, vividly translating the make of humor Tyler has cultivated through her successful standup career, aswell as the strong voice and unique point of view she expresses on her taste-making comedy podcast Woman on Guy.

Riotous, revealing, and wonderfully relatable, Aisha Tyler’s Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation is about the energy of calamity to shape life, learning, and success.