I Miss You When I Blink: Essays

I Miss You When I Blink: Essays

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

â€œI've spent my adult life prowling bookshelves for the modern-day reincarnation of my favorite authorsâ€”Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwinâ€”all rolled into one...Good news: I have finally found their successor.â€ â€”Elisabeth Egan, The Washington Post

Acclaimed essayist and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott presents a charmingly relatable and wise memoir-in-essays about what happened after she checked off all the boxes on her successful lifeâ€™s to-do list and realized she might need to reinvent the listâ€”and herself.

Mary Laura Philpott thought sheâ€™d cracked the code: Always be right, and youâ€™ll always be happy.

But once sheâ€™d completed her lifeâ€™s to-do list (job, spouse, house, babiesâ€”check!), she found that instead of feeling content and successful, she felt anxious. Lost. Stuck in a daily grind of overflowing calendars, grueling small talk, and sprawling traffic. Sheâ€™d done everything â€œright,â€ but she felt all wrong. Whatâ€™s the worse failure, she wondered: smiling and staying the course, or blowing it all up and running away? And are those the only options?

In this memoir-in-essays full of spot-on observations about home, work, and creative life, Philpott takes on the conflicting pressures of modern adulthood with wit and heart. She offers up her own stories to show that identity crises donâ€™t happen just once or only at midlife; reassures us that small, recurring personal re-inventions are both normal and necessary; and advises that if youâ€™re going to faint, you should get low to the ground first. Most of all, Philpott shows that when you stop feeling satisfied with your life, you donâ€™t have to burn it all down and set off on a transcontinental hike (unless you want to, of course). You can call upon your many selves to figure out who you are, who youâ€™re not, and where you belong. Who among us isnâ€™t trying to do that?

Like a pep talk from a sister, I Miss You When I Blink is the funny, poignant, and deeply affecting book youâ€™ll want to share with all your friends, as you learn what Philpott has figured out along the way: that multiple things can be true of us at onceâ€”and that sometimes doing things wrong is the way to do life right.
Country USA
Brand Atria Books
Manufacturer Atria Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 53021473
ReleaseDate 2019-04-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781982102807

Country	USA
Brand	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	53021473
ReleaseDate	2019-04-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781982102807

I Miss You When I Blink: Essays

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