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WE CAN'T WAIT! Just The Kind Of Winter Break We All Need. SARA BENINCASA Please remember that all books presented for signing must be purchased through the Clinton Book Shop.  To reserve your copy, call 908-735-8811 She is “utterly hilarious” (NewYorkTimes.com) and “delightfully loopy” (ChicagoTribune.com). But comedian and radio host Sara Benincasa’s life hasn’t always been a funny joyride. Since childhood, she strugged with panic disorder, becoming by age twenty-one a ”full-on obsessive, cowering, trembling agoraphobe.” Terrified to leave her own apartment, she stacked empty cans and jars against the wall of her tiny studio apartment. Her fear eventually extended to everything but her bed. Afraid of even the sink, she began using cereal bowls as toilets. And always there was the siren song of the knives in the kitchen drawer, luring her to give herself over to emptiness. As she neared the edge, friends and family, therapy and drugs intervened to help Sara build a new world from the ashes of her former life. Today, the acclaimed artist tours the world—a life inconceivable to the frightened, stick-thin young woman crouching in the dark whom she once was. Agorafabulous! is her funny, unpretentious recollections of being a prisoner of fear and how she struggled to overcome her demons. Earthy and relatable, unabashedly incorrect and unsentimental, she will “break your heart in one sentence and leave you hunched over with laughter in the next” (Sam Apple, author of American Parent). Sara Benincasa has appeared on the Today show, the CBS Early Show, CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, MTV News, The Gayle King Show on the Oprah Winfrey Network, as well as on Cosmopolitan Radio, Maxim Radio, and the nationally syndicated Stephanice Miller show. Her comedy has been featured in numerous publications, including the Chicago Tribune, CNN, New York Times, New York magazine, Newsweek.com, Politico, the Guardian, Le Figaro, the Huffington Post, ComedyCentral.com, and Wonkette.com. The host of her own web and podcast shows, Sara Benincasa reaches a wide and growing audience. She was honored in the 2009 Webby Awards and was named one of the Huffington Post's favorite female comedians and one of the“Best Twitter Users of 2010” by Paste magazine.