Title |
I'll show myself out : essays on midlife & motherhood / Jessi Klein. |
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Description |
viii, 272 pages ; 22 cm |
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Contents |
The hero's journey -- The butterfly -- On the Starbuck's 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 Beyonce 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 |
"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." -- Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Klein, Jessi, 1975-
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Women comedians -- United States -- Biography.
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Middle-aged women -- Anecdotes.
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Motherhood -- Anecdotes.
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Genre |
Autobiographies.
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Essays.
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Anecdotes.
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Other title |
I will show myself out |
ISBN |
9780062981592
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