An instantNew York Timesbestseller,I'll Show Myself Outis the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debutYou'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'sWe Didn't Start the Fireand then brace for questions? The first of which should be, how is this a song that played on the radio?�
InNew York Timesbestselling 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 Outis an incisive, moving, and often uproarious collection.