Youll Grow Out of It, Jessi Klein
Youll Grow Out of It, Jessi Klein
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You'll Grow Out of It

Bestseller

Author: Jessi Klein

Narrator: Jessi Klein

Unabridged: 7 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/12/2016

Synopsis

As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity.

"Jessi Klein is a brilliant comedic mind and this book is a perfect reflection of that. It's like having a glass of wine with the best friend you wish you had." —Amy Schumer, actor, comedian

In You'll Grow Out of It, Klein offers—through an incisive collection of real-life stories—a relentlessly funny yet poignant take on a variety of topics she has experienced along her strange journey to womanhood and beyond. These include her "transformation from Pippi Longstocking-esque tomboy to are-you-a-lesbian-or-what tom man," attempting to find watchable porn, and identifying the difference between being called "ma'am" and "miss" ("miss sounds like you weigh 99 pounds").

Raw, relatable, and consistently hilarious, You'll Grow Out of It is a one-of-a-kind book by a singular and irresistible comic voice.

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 Stephanie on August 09, 2016

Yes, only 2 stars (2.5 really). First, let me say that Klein is a good writer. I liked her "voice" and her many jokes. She's smart and funny. This book is a fast read and it's enjoyable too. But I've held back a little on a glowing review only because I can't shake my feeling of slight perturb over......more

Goodreads review by JanB on December 27, 2017

Read by the author, this compilation of essays is an often hilarious, sometimes poignant, look into her life as a tomboy who never “grew out of it”. Underlying the snarky, smart humor there were insightful messages on ageism, sexism, and femininity. I enjoyed her voice, and found her self-deprecatin......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on July 22, 2017

Stand-up comedian Jessi Klein is a GREAT writer. The first half of this collection of memoir-essays is sooooo funny. I really loved the first 40% of this book. But since the book opens with an essay about the author being a "Tom Man," I must state that there is a giant disconnect in this book. I cons......more

Goodreads review by Lila on July 17, 2016

Very fun and entertaining, but as I have complained w other white lady essay books, I wish the author would have more awareness of her wealthy white lady-specific world view. The book would be so much better, and ring truer for a broader readership, if Klein wouldn't act like everyone reading is lik......more

Quotes

"Jessi Klein is a brilliant comedic mind and this book is a perfect reflection of that. It's like having a glass of wine with the best friend you wish you had."—Amy Schumer

"YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT does an amazing job making me understand what my life might be like if I were a woman. Or if I were Jessi Klein. I laughed. Lots. Not at what it's like to be a woman! That would be sexist. I laughed at the parts that you're supposed to. Which are plentiful. Because Jessi Klein is truly really funny."—Ira Glass

"Never afraid to share insights and reveal the raw truth behind her own stories, Klein makes readers laugh while inspiring them, a feat that calls to mind the work of the late Nora Ephron. This uplifting and uproarious collection of personal essays will be repeatedly shared among friends."—Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

"Reading [Jessi Klein's] book is like watching her--doubtless superb--stand-up act."—Booklist (Starred Review)

"A gifted comedian turns the anxieties, obsessions, insecurities, and impossible-to-meet expectations that make up human nature into laughter."—Kirkus (starred review)

"Fans of Amy Schumer (i.e., everybody?) will fall in love with funny-woman-and Emmy Award-winning Inside Amy Schumer writer-Jessi Klein's relatable collection of humor essays....Klein is a truly witty PRINZESS."—Bust

"Klein shares her eccentric path to adulthood, from her tomboyish girlhood to sidesplitting dating tales and beyond in this uproarious, relatable, and irresistible memoir."—Harper's Bazaar

"A book like Jessi Klein's YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT comes along to remind us just what an artful confessional essay can do."—New York Times

"Is it really a surprise that comedian Jessi Klein, head writer and executive producer for Inside Amy Schumer, would write a book of personal essays brimming with sharp observations and insights and poignant recollections but that above all is very, very funny? ...We guarantee that this book will quickly become one of your summer favorites."—Entertainment Weekly

"[Jessi Klein's] astute, hilarious essays about the perilous path to modern womanhood will have you wincing in recognition."—People

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