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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.
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Comedian Klein (You'll Grow Out of It) takes a moving look at motherhood in this bold and irreverent collection. The 22 essays offer a refreshing take on parenthood, mixing brutal honesty, candid emotion, and humor. "Mom Clothes" considers the author's experience hanging on to baby weight post-labor and "the sheer unending exhaustion" of motherhood, while "The Car Seat" is a heartfelt take on the author's frustration with car seats, and the loss of self as she sees "Baby on Board" car stickers and wonders why she can't have one that simply reads "Me on Board." "Bread and Cheese" is an ode to the insanity of picky eaters: "Of all the childhood behaviors that trigger me... Asher's refusal to eat is the one that makes me most want to tantrum myself." "In Defense of Drinking" is a response to anti "Mommy Drinking" sentiment, in which she labels alcohol an "ongoing epidural." Klein is full of surprises, and moments of hilarity often dissolve into unexpected glimpses of joy: her reminder that "being a parent is a lot like having a dream.... Most of it, even when it's ugly, is beautiful," for example, lands with grace. Funny, clever, and full of heart, this one's a gem. Agent: David Kuhn, Aevitas Creative Management. (Apr.)
Booklist Review
Comedy writer Klein (You'll Grow Out of It, 2016) expects the haters to come for her when she says tequila makes her a better mom. It's perhaps more likely that admissions like this one will make her a friend to readers of her second essay collection. After revealing her fear of writing about being a mom, Klein reclaims Joseph Campbell's hero's journey as a loose frame for the book. In motherhood, the hero's journey is "not a journey outward, to the most fantastic and farthest-flung places, but inward, downward, to the deepest parts of your strength." Klein writes about mothering her son--potty training him, playing boring games with him, watching "his" (her) pet caterpillar turn into a butterfly--as well as personal stuff like hair loss, body image, marital discord, and missing who she was before she became a mom. 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.
Table of Contents
| The Hero's Journey | p. 1 |
| The Butterfly | p. 13 |
| On the Starbucks Bathroom Floor | p. 31 |
| Mom Clothes | p. 45 |
| The Car Seat | p. 59 |
| An Open Love Letter to Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent | p. 69 |
| Underwear Sandwich | p. 81 |
| My Future Lesbian Wife | p. 89 |
| Listening to Beyoncé in the Parking Lot of Party City | p. 99 |
| Somewhere over the Rainbow | p. 111 |
| Your Husband Will Remarry Five Minutes After You Die | p. 119 |
| Talismans | p. 127 |
| Bread and Cheese | p. 137 |
| Change of Hands | p. 149 |
| Hair | p. 167 |
| Teddy Ruxpin | p. 185 |
| Bad News | p. 193 |
| In Defense of Drinking | p. 207 |
| Eulogy for My Feet | p. 217 |
| Demon Halloween | p. 225 |
| Little Books | p. 239 |
| The Return | p. 257 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 269 |