If you’ve said it once, you’ve said it a thousand times: Strung together, your personal dramas could fill a book.

Sorry to bear bad news, but Sloane Tanen has beaten you to it. Her new book, Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same, depicts, in artful and inventive dioramas, the situations that all modern types will recognize: therapy, childbirth, hair straightening, jealousy, and Atkins. Not to mention suburban swing parties, post-bikini-wax mirror inspections, family roadtrips in the wood-paneled wagon, and evil scientists who conduct intraspecies experiments.

The twist is Tanen does it all using chicks. As in the fuzzy little Peeps kind. She contorts her subjects in unexpected ways and punctuates the scenes with whip-smart captions. Bitter may be the funniest book you pick up all year. It’s certainly the most creative.

Just, please, no chick-lit jokes.

Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same is available online at amazon.com or at your local bookstore.