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I'll show myself out : essays on midlife and motherhood / Jessi Klein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Harper, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 272 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780062981592
  • 0062981595
Other title:
  • I will show myself out
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The hero's journey -- The butterfly -- On the Starbucks bathroom floor -- Mom clothes -- The car seat -- An open love letter to Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent -- Underwear sandwich -- My future lesbian wife -- Listening to Beyoncé in the parking lot of Party City -- Somewhere over the rainbow -- Your husband will remarry five minutes after you die -- Talismans -- Bread and cheese -- Change of hands -- Hair -- Teddy Ruxpin -- Bad news -- In defense of drinking -- Eulogy for my feet -- Demon Halloween -- Little books -- The return.
Summary: In Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Jessi Klein's second collection, she hilariously explodes the cultural myths and impossible expectations around motherhood and explores the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife. Klein explores this stage of life in all its cruel ironies, joyous moments, and bittersweetness.Summary: The best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning writer and producer hilariously destroys the cultural myths and impossible expectations of modern-day motherhood and explores the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife.
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An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debut You'll Grow Out of It.

Longlisted for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

"Sometimes I think about how much bad news there is to tell my kid, the endlessly long, looping CVS receipt scroll of truly terrible things that have happened, and I want to get under the bed and never come out. How do we tell them about all this Can we just play Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire and then brace for questions The first of which should be, how is this a song that played on the radio"

In New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Jessi Klein's second collection, she hilariously explodes the cultural myths and impossible expectations around motherhood and explore the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife.

In interconnected essays like "Listening to Beyoncé in the Parking Lot of Party City," "Your Husband Will Remarry Five Minutes After You Die," "Eulogy for My Feet," and "An Open Love Letter to Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent," Klein explores this stage of life in all its cruel ironies, joyous moments, and bittersweetness.

Written with Klein's signature candor and humanity, I'll Show Myself Out is an incisive, moving, and often uproarious collection.

In Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Jessi Klein's second collection, she hilariously explodes the cultural myths and impossible expectations around motherhood and explores the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife. Klein explores this stage of life in all its cruel ironies, joyous moments, and bittersweetness.

The best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning writer and producer hilariously destroys the cultural myths and impossible expectations of modern-day motherhood and explores the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife.

The hero's journey -- The butterfly -- On the Starbucks bathroom floor -- Mom clothes -- The car seat -- An open love letter to Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent -- Underwear sandwich -- My future lesbian wife -- Listening to Beyoncé in the parking lot of Party City -- Somewhere over the rainbow -- Your husband will remarry five minutes after you die -- Talismans -- Bread and cheese -- Change of hands -- Hair -- Teddy Ruxpin -- Bad news -- In defense of drinking -- Eulogy for my feet -- Demon Halloween -- Little books -- The return.

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