I'll show myself out : essays on midlife & motherhood

Select an Action

Title:

I'll show myself out : essays on midlife & motherhood

Added Title:

Hero's journey.

Butterfly.

On the Starbucks bathroom floor.

Mom clothes.

Car seat.

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.

Return.

Author:

Klein, Jessi, 1975- author.

Summary:

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. -- Amazon.

Edition:

First edition.

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.

Physical Description:

viii, 272 pages ; 22 cm

Genre:

Personal Subject:

Subject Term:

Women comedians -- Biography.

Middle-aged women -- Anecdotes.

Motherhood -- Anecdotes.

Publisher:

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Publication Date:

2022

ISBN:

9780062981592

Publication Information:

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

Call Number:

814 KLEIN

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607003623181	Adult Nonfiction	814 KLEIN	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable
33607003630624	Adult Nonfiction	814 KLEIN	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

Bound With These Titles

On Order

Summary

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.

Author Notes

Jessi Klein was born in New York City, New York on August 17, 1975. She is a comedy writer, stand-up comedian, and producer. She has written for Amazon's Transparent , Saturday Night Live and been published in Esquire and Cosmopolitan. Her memoir, You'll Grow Out of It, is on the New York Times bestsellers list. She is an executive producer of Comedy Central's series Inside Amy Schumer. Some of her other work has been on the storytelling series The Moth, and as regular panelist on NPR's Wait Wait¿Don't Tell Me!

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

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.)

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

Available:*

Bound With These Titles

On Order

Summary

Summary

Author Notes

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Table of Contents