Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West – ‘I never wanted internet trolls to be my beat’

West's memoir is full of a wild, joyous vulgarity and ranges from body images and rape threats to puberty and her love for her husband

In 2013, Lindy West got a message on Twitter from her dead father. "Embarrassed father of an idiot," his bio said. But no: "My dad was never mean. It couldn't really be from him. Also, he was dead - just 18 months earlier, I'd watched him turn grey and drown in his own magnificent lungs." Someone wanted to hurt her.

At that moment in her career, West was fielding daily online harassment for her opposition to rape jokes in standup comedy. "I was eating 30 rape threats for breakfast at that point (or, more accurately, 'You're fatter than the girls I usually rape' threats)," she writes in this memoir. "No one could touch me any more."