I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

The second essay collection by Jessi Klein, the author of the acclaimed debut You'll Grow Out of It, explores the cultural myths and impossible expectations around motherhood and midlife, featuring interconnected essays that are incisive, moving, and often uproarious.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 27 April 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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 her 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 explores 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.

Weight: 252g
Dimension: 135 x 203 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780062981608