Included in Time's 100 Must Read Books of 2021 list * A New York Times Best Seller * One of
Audible's Best of The Year * AV Club's Best Books to Buy ?Funny tender and so good.? ? Mindy
Kaling #1 New York Times bestselling author of Why Not Me? Remember when we hit it off so well
that we decided We're Going to Need More Wine? Well this time you and I are going to turn to
our friend the bartender and ask You Got Anything Stronger? I promise to continue to make you
laugh but with this round the stakes get higher as the conversation goes deeper. So. Where
were we? Right you and I left off in October 2017 when my first book came out. The weeks
before were filled with dreams of loss. Pets dying. My husband leaving me. Babies not being
born. My therapist told me it was my soul preparing for my true self to emerge after letting go
of my grief. I had finally spoken openly about my fertility journey. I was having second
thoughts?in fact so many thoughts they were organizing to go on strike. But I knew I had to be
honest because I didn't want other women going through IVF to feel as alone as I did. I had
suffered in isolation having so many miscarriages that I could not give an exact number.
Strangers shared their own journeys and heartbreak with me. I had led with the truth and it
opened the door to compassion. When I released We're Going to Need More Wine the response was
so great people asked when I would do a sequel. The New York Times even ran a headline reading
?We're Going to Need More Gabrielle Union.? Frankly after being so open and honest in my
writing I wasn't sure there was more of me I was ready to share. But life happens with all its
plot twists. And new stories demand to be told. This time I need to be more vulnerable?not so
much for me but anyone who feels alone in what they're going through. A lot has changed in
four years?I became a mom and I'm raising two amazing girls. My husband retired. My career has
expanded so that I have the opportunity to lift up other voices that need to be heard. But the
world has also shown us that we have a lot we still have to fight for?as women as black women
as mothers as aging women as human beings as friends. In You Got Anything Stronger? I show
you how this ever-changing life presents challenges even as it gives me moments of pure joy. I
take you on a girl's night at Chateau Marmont and I also talk to Isis my character from Bring
It On. For the first time I truly open up about my surrogacy journey and the birth of Kaavia
James Union Wade. And I take on racist institutions and practices in the entertainment industry
asking for equality and real accountability. You Got Anything Stronger? is me at my most
vulnerable. I have recently found true strength in that vulnerability and I want to share that
power with you here through this book.
