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

Author

Jessi Klein

Call Number

• 921 K643.1 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

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

Physical Description

viii, 272 pages ; 22 cm

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.

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.