Face flushed. Heart racing. Thoughts scattering. Gemma Correll is all of us. Including Molly Ringwald, who last week revealed that she stayed up all night reading Anxietyland. Calling the book an instant obsession, she said she “absolutely loved it,” couldn’t put it down, and named it the very first pick of her brand-new book club.
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Yes, we know. We just dropped a ton of news in that one paragraph. Amazing book. Instant obsession. New celebrity book club. It’s a lot. But stick with us. Correll’s memoir, stylized as a wonderfully illustrated graphic novel — Correll is also an award-winning cartoonist — Anxietyland is not a self-help book. Rather it plays out like a confessional, a story of struggle and perseverance that is as relatable as Ringwald’s coming-of-age film oeuvre.
Correll, now 42, offers a deeply personal account of her lifelong anxiety, panic, agoraphobia, and depression. Using a theme park as a metaphor, she invites readers into the “amusement park of her mind,” taking them for rides on the “Emotional Rollercoaster,” the “Worry-Go-Round,” and the “Downward Spiral.” Though laced with humor and self-deprecation, the book is rooted in a period of crisis.
In 2018, Correll found herself in the grip of a weeks-long panic attack, turning to alcohol in an attempt to cope. Overwhelmed and unable to break the cycle, she checked herself into a mental health hospital in Oakland. And that is where her emotional memoir starts.
“It was just a really, really fun, moving read, to see somebody that goes through what I've gone through at different times in my life,” Ringwald, 58, shared in an Instagram post about the book.
Connecting with Correll’s raw honesty and emotional authenticity, Ringwald then teased the book as the first pick of a new book club, should anyone out there want a book club. Of course, her comments section was then flooded with fans begging for the '80s icon to launch a reading club, so she did.
"It seems that a lot of you are up for a Molly book club, so count this as my first offering!" Ringwald captioned another post, this one featuring the inner artwork of Correll’s graphic memoir.
View this post on InstagramRingwald, an author herself, wrote 2010's Getting the Pretty Back and 2012’s When It Happens to You. She has also narrated an audiobook,Judy Blume: A Life, by Mark Oppenheimer. So her emergence as the latest celebrity to spark a new book club feels less like a surprise and more like a logical next step for the creative. Count us in. But don't put us down for the Downward Spiral. We've already ridden that monster this week.
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