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.
