Hilarious and oddly inspiring

Trainwreck is proof that a life disastrously lived can still turn out beyond anybody's wildest imaginings.

Growing up a privileged Manhattan kid, Jeff Nichols should have had it all. Instead, he got a plethora of impairments: learning disabilities, a speech impediment, dyslexia, ADD, and a mild case of Tourette's syndrome. In Trainwreck, his weird and witty memoir of utter dysfunction, Nichols gives an irreverent look at how one "idiot" made good.