Scrappy Little Nobody

By: Anna Kendrick

Published November 15th 2016 by Gallery Books

Category: Biography

Pages: 275 pages

ISBN: 9781501117206

Description:
A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect.

Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, Twilight, and Into the Woods, Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird, and Ò10 percent defiant.Ó

At the ripe age of thirteen, she had already resolved to Òkeep the crazy inside my head where it belonged. Forever. But hereÕs the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.Ó In Scrappy Little Nobody, she invites readers inside her brain, sharing extraordinary and charmingly ordinary stories with candor and winningly wry observations.

With her razor-sharp wit, Anna recounts the absurdities sheÕs experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture as only she canÑfrom her unusual path to the performing arts (Vanilla Ice and baggy neon pants may have played a role) to her double life as a middle-school student who also starred on Broadway to her initial Òdating experimentsÓ (including only liking boys who didnÕt like her back) to reviewing a binder full of butt doubles to her struggle to live like an adult woman instead of a perpetual Òman-child.Ó

Enter AnnaÕs world and follow her rise from Òscrappy little nobodyÓ to somebody who dazzles on the stage, the screen, and now the pageÑwith an electric, singular voice, at once familiar and surprising, sharp and sweet, funny and serious (well, not that serious).