Help Me: My Perfectly Disastrous Journey through the World of Self-Help

A hilarious and heartwarming rampage through the world of self-care

Marianne
Power was a self-help junkie. For years she lined her bookshelves with
dog-eared copies of definitive guide after definitive guide on how to
live your best life. Yet one day she woke up to find that the life she
dreamed of and the life she was living were not miles but continents
apart. So she set out to make a change. Or, actually, to make every change.

Marianne
decided to finally find out if her elusive perfect life—the one without
debt, anxiety, hangovers or Netflix marathons, the one where she
healthily bounced around town with perfect teeth to meet the
cashmere-sweater-wearing man of her dreams—lay in the pages of those
books. So for a year she vowed to test a book a month, following its
advice to the letter, taking the surest road she knew to a perfect
Marianne.

As her year-long plan turned into a demented roller
coaster where everything she knew was turned upside down, she found
herself confronted with a different question: Self-help can change your
life, but is it for the better?