THE BRAND NEW York Times bestselling collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award­-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Great.

Even just before she produced a name for herself in the big screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, Twilight, and In to the Woods, Anna Kendrick was unusually little, weird, and “ten percent defiant.”

On the ripe age of thirteen, she had currently resolved to “keep carefully the crazy inside my mind where it belonged. Forever. But about Scrappy Little Nobody here’s finished . about crazy: It. Wants. Out.” In Scrappy Little Nobody, she invites visitors inside her brain, sharing extraordinary and charmingly normal stories with candor and winningly wry observations.

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 way to the performing arts (Vanilla Ice and baggy neon pants may have played a job) to her double life being a middle-school student who also starred on Broadway to her initial “dating tests” (including only liking boys who didn’t like her back) to looking at a binder filled with butt doubles to her struggle to live as an adult woman rather than a perpetual “man-child.”

Enter Anna’s globe and follow her rise from “scrappy small no one” to someone who dazzles over the stage, the display, and now the page-with an electric, singular voice, simultaneously familiar and surprising, clear and special, funny and serious (well, not that serious).