A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of <i>Up in the Air</i> and <i>Pitch Perfect</i>.<br><br>Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like <i>Pitch</i> <i>Perfect</i>, <i>Up in the Air</i>, <i>Twilig</i><i>ht</i>, and <i>Into the</i> <i>Woods</i>, Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird, and "10 percent defiant."<br> <br>At the ripe age of thirteen, she had already resolved to "keep the crazy inside my head where it belonged. Forever. But here's the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out." In <i>Scrappy Little Nobody</i>, she invites readers inside her brain, sharing extraordinary and charmingly ordinary stories with candor and winningly wry observations.<br> <br>With her razor-sharp wit, Anna recounts the absurdities she's experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture as only she can - from 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 "dating experiments" (including only liking boys who didn't like her back) to reviewing a binder full of butt doubles to her struggle to live like an adult woman instead of a perpetual "man-child."<br> <br>Enter Anna's world and follow her rise from "scrappy little nobody" to somebody who dazzles on the stage, the screen, and now the page - with an electric, singular voice, at once familiar and surprising, sharp and sweet, funny and serious (well, not that serious) .
