The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo Book Review

Format:  Audiobook
Genre: Autobiography
Narrator:  Author


"In The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy mines her past for stories about her teenage years, her family, relationships, and sex and shares the experiences that have shaped who she is - a woman with the courage to bare her soul to stand up for what she believes in, all while making us laugh."









I particularly enjoyed some parts of Amy Schumer's The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo and particularly disliked others.

Surprisingly, I found Amy's stories about her family to be the best part of the entire book.  Her childhood was intense, the kind of plot a novel would covet.  Her parents divorced when she was young under the weirdest of circumstances.  The struggles she has with her relationship with her mom are relatable and the anecdotes she tells about her experience with her dads multiple sclerosis are sad but Amy tells them in a beautifully funny way.


I loved the way Amy discussed money.  My favorite quote from her in this book is, "It is FUN to give money away."  I also loved that she told the reader that her greatest fear at 9 years old is that she would churn herself into butter.  These anecdotes were relatable and funny.

I do specifically take issue with one thing Amy said in this book and that is, "No one can be innocent and wise at the same time."  She seems to use that mindset to justify her shoplifting as a teen and other mistakes she has made throughout her life.  Maybe, "No one can be naive and wise at the same time," would be a true statement.  But if there is any correlation between wisdom and innocence, it is the reverse of what she said.

Amy also talks a LOT about her sex life.  In fact, she opens her autobiography with a chapter titled, "An Open Letter to My Vagina."  Thank you, but I didn't need to know that.  It added absolutely no value to the book.  Nor did I want to hear about her one night stands and other arbitrary sexual escapades.

This is not to say that all of her stories about sex and boys had no merit.  I appreciated Amy's honesty when she talked about her first relationship, the emotional as well as the sexual.  I also really appreciated her openness about her experiences with domestic abuse.  These two stories were powerful and the subject matter is important.

I give this book 3 stars.  While I enjoyed learning about Amy's childhood and how she got started in the comedy field, the book could have done without the extensive (and often pointless) details about sex life.