Ill Show Myself Out, Jessi Klein
Ill Show Myself Out, Jessi Klein
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I'll Show Myself Out
Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

Bestseller

Author: Jessi Klein

Narrator: Jessi Klein

Unabridged: 6 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/26/2022

Synopsis

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.

About Jessi Klein

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. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Yelena on December 01, 2021

Literally cannot say enough good things about this book. Jessi Klein is a national treasure and patron saint of real-talk moms. Whether extolling the blessing of a certain kind of jumpsuit, questioning the proliferation of “mama” necklaces or being honest about what happens inside your head when you......more

Goodreads review by britt_brooke on May 30, 2022

Klein waxes honestly on new motherhood, her anxieties and cluelessness, and the struggle to feel comfortable in her body. Some readers will identify, some won’t, and that’s okay. I’m tired of reviewers claiming that privileged white people aren’t allowed to *gasp* have problems nor write about them.......more

Goodreads review by Amina on December 01, 2022

I’ll Show Myself Out is relatable as hell, witty, fresh, and hilarious. I listened to this book, and recommend everyone get the audio version . Jessi Klein reads like stand up comedy, making it all the more fun. This is the story of a 40 something woman navigating age, a new baby, and all the random......more

Goodreads review by Kat on May 18, 2022

Well written and witty stories of motherhood. But left me feeling sad and frustrated. The author boasts about having a full time nanny during the day plus a nighttime nanny all night. And yet complains about how hard motherhood is. I wish she could go back and try doing it again with less childcare......more

Goodreads review by Jquick99 on July 11, 2022

Didn’t know who the author was when I got the audiobook from the library. Most of the stories/vignettes are about how tough it is being a mom to a 3 yo. She had NO idea it would be this exhausting. She seems so “who knew?” so much, I thought the son was unplanned. The author does admit they were tot......more

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