02165cam a2200361 i 4500 555620115 TxAuBib 20220615120000.0 220413s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2022012497 9780062981592 HRD 26.99 0062981595 HRD 26.99 TxAuBib rda Klein, Jessi, 1975- Essays Selections. I'll show myself out [BOOK] : essays on midlife & motherhood / Jessi Klein. I will show myself out. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] viii, 272 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier “'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 this collection of essays, Jessi Klein 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.” Provided by publisher. 20220615. Klein, Jessi 1975- Women comedians United States Biography. Middle-aged women Anecdotes. Motherhood Anecdotes. Anecdotes. Autobiographies. Essays.