If at Birth You Dont Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny

Hilarious and inspiring, Anner has made a life filled with fans, love, and Internet famereminding us that disability is no match for dreams.People (Book of the Week)Zach Anner is way more than an inspirational figure for anyone who has ever felt impossibly different: hes also a great f**king writer.Lena DunhamComedian Zach Anner opens his frank and devilishly funny book, If at Birth You Dont Succeed, with an admission: he botched his own birth. Two months early, underweight and underprepared for life, he entered the world with cerebral palsy and an uncertain future. So how did this hairless molerat of a boy blossom into a viral internet sensation whos hosted two travel shows, impressed Oprah, driven the Mars Rover, and inspired a John Mayer song? (It wasnt Your Body is a Wonderland.)Zach lives by the mantra: when life gives you wheelchair, make lemonade. Whether recounting a valiant childhood attempt to woo Cindy Crawford, encounters with zealous faith healers, or the time he crapped his pants mere feet from Dr. Phil, Zach shares his fumbles with unflinching honesty and characteristic charm. By his thirtieth birthday, Zach had grown into an adult with a career in entertainment, millions of fans, a loving family, and friends who would literally carry him up mountains.If at Birth You Dont Succeed is a hilariously irreverent and heartfelt memoir about finding your passion and your path even when its paved with epic misadventure. This is the unlikely but not unlucky story of a man who couldnt safely open a bag of Skittles, but still became a fitness guru with fans around the world. Youll laugh, youll cry, youll fall in love with the Olive Garden all over again, and learn why cerebral palsy is, definitively, the sexiest of the palsies.