I'll Show Myself Out

Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

I'll Show Myself Out
Jessi Klein
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NZ$ 55.00
Hardback
h210 x 140mm - 288pg
26 May 2022 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780062981592
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The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling debut You' ll Grow Out of It. "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 Beyonce 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.
"Jessi Klein has yet again ' delivered' (and yes I' m using that in the messy motherhood-pun way-I' m not the writer) a collection of the most relatable, achingly raw, and stunningly human essays I have read about the mess of motherhood and this chapter of life since her last collection. And. . . they are of course hilarious. THANK YOU JESSI for this gift. Please read it, mothers. It is nourishment. " -- Kathryn Hahn "Jessi Klein' s essay collection spoke to the deepest part of my soul and being. Her framing of motherhood as a ' hero' s journey' made me weep from feeling seen. I also howled with laughter so many times I was politely asked to leave a restaurant. It' s a perfect book. " -- Casey Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of The Wreckage of My Presence "I' ll Show Myself Out is so pee-in-the-pants funny, I made sure to wear period underwear while reading it. Insanely smart and wildly relatable, Jessi Klein' s highly anticipated second book is the most entertaining thing I' ve read in a long time. " -- Ali Wong, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Girls "A bold and irreverent collection. . . . Klein is full of surprises, and moments of hilarity often dissolve into unexpected glimpses of joy. . . . Funny, clever, and full of heart, this one' s a gem. " -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Klein isn' t here to make motherhood look pretty, but she ends up making it look pretty great in the truest sense of the word, mixing laughs with poignancy and treating heavy topics with a brightening kind of honesty. " -- Booklist Praise for You' ll Grow Out of It: "A book like Jessi Klein' s YOU' LL GROW OUT OF IT comes along to remind us just what an artful confessional essay can do. " -- New York Times "Is it really a surprise that comedian Jessi Klein, head writer and executive producer for Inside Amy Schumer, would write a book of personal essays brimming with sharp observations and insights and poignant recollections but that above all is very, very funny? . . . We guarantee that this book will quickly become one of your summer favorites. " -- Entertainment Weekly "[Jessi Klein' s] astute, hilarious essays about the perilous path to modern womanhood will have you wincing in recognition. " -- People "Klein shares her eccentric path to adulthood, from her tomboyish girlhood to sidesplitting dating tales and beyond in this uproarious, relatable, and irresistible memoir. " -- Harper' s Bazaar "Deftly blending irreverent humor with poignant insights, Klein' s writing is wonderfully intimate. " -- New York magazine "Never afraid to share insights and reveal the raw truth behind her own stories, Klein makes readers laugh while inspiring them, a feat that calls to mind the work of the late Nora Ephron. This uplifting and uproarious collection of personal essays will be repeatedly shared among friends. " -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Reading [Jessi Klein' s] book is like watching her--doubtless superb--stand-up act. " -- Booklist (starred review) "A gifted comedian turns the anxieties, obsessions, insecurities, and impossible-to-meet expectations that make up human nature into laughter. " -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Jessi Klein is the author of You' ll Grow Out of It and the Emmy and Peabody award-winning head writer and an executive producer of Comedy Central' s critically acclaimed series Inside Amy Schumer. She is an actor and consulting producer on the hit Netflix show Big Mouth, and has also written for Netflix' s Dead to Me and Amazon' s Transparent as well as Saturday Night Live. Klein has been featured on the popular storytelling series The Moth, and has been a regular panelist on NPR' s Wait Wait. . . Don' t Tell Me! Her work has been published in the New York Times, the New Yorker, GQ, and Cosmopolitan, and she has her own half-hour Comedy Central stand-up special. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780062981592
Published: 26 May 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Harper
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format: Hardback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 363g
Pages: 288

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