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I’ll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling debut You’ll Grow Out of It.
«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 the The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling debut You’ll Grow Out of It.
«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 Beyonc� 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.
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This was a quick and fantastic listen. Perfectly suited for new mothers or mothers of toddlers. It took me back to the days of feeding debacles, sweating my ass off while installing car seats and the joys of potty training (I tease).
Jessi is funny and real and doesn’t hold back. She’s self-aware and some might call her privileged but she doesn’t that already.
Thank you to Harper Audio for the gifted listening copy. I already have a list of people I’ll be recommending this great listen to.
Another funny one from Klein (and another Gen X essay-memoir for me). Some parts of this were so laugh-out-loud that I read them to various people who happened to be in the room with me, including my teenage twins, who I think don’t believe they ever did things like Klein describes her small son doing (but they did). She structures the book around Joseph Campbell’s metaphor of the hero’s journey. Mothers embody that journey, she says: «. there is no more ‘superhuman deed’ than steadfastly carin Another funny one from Klein (and another Gen X essay-memoir for me). Some parts of this were so laugh-out-loud that I read them to various people who happened to be in the room with me, including my teenage twins, who I think don’t believe they ever did things like Klein describes her small son doing (but they did). She structures the book around Joseph Campbell’s metaphor of the hero’s journey. Mothers embody that journey, she says: «. there is no more ‘superhuman deed’ than steadfastly caring for and feeding your child and not giving in to the temptation to flee the entire situation.»
The potty training chapter was especially good. I remember after potty training our twins (a relative thing, because our son didn’t stop wetting his bed until he was 8. but he was day-trained), I said I never wanted to potty train any living creature again, including a dog. It would be only adult, already-housebroken dogs for us forever and ever. This dashed my daughter’s hope of getting a puppy (she can get a puppy when she has her own place, with its own carpet. insert evil laugh).
Klein doesn’t limit herself to motherhood. She also covers marriage, the pandemic, nostalgia for her own childhood, and grass-is-greener fantasies and worries («Your Husband Will Remarry Five Minutes After You Die»). But the motherhood bits are where she’s at her best and funniest. Looking at motherhood from a purely selfish perspective, I’ve long felt (since I came out of the early haze of it) that it’s helped me grow up or maybe finish the process of growing up. This isn’t to say that people who don’t have children never grow up. But having kids was necessary for me personally to do it, and I sense that in Klein too.
I laughed out loud. I had tears in my eyes at times. I feel seen. Wish I could be friends with Jessi, we have a lot in common!
Thanks for normalizing long term pregnancy weight gain, female hair loss and all the other things that often come along with motherhood and aging.
This collection of essays explores the impossible expectations, joys and frustrations of motherhood. Jessi Klein’s essays are relatable, easy to read and laugh out loud funny. The tales are told with both humor and heart and are touching and spot-on. A quick read with a humorous look at motherhood.
Jessi’s first collection of essays, You’ll Grow Out of It, focuses on her dating life, becoming a woman, getting married later in life, and the birth of her son. Yes, Please by Amy Poehler is another This collection of essays explores the impossible expectations, joys and frustrations of motherhood. Jessi Klein’s essays are relatable, easy to read and laugh out loud funny. The tales are told with both humor and heart and are touching and spot-on. A quick read with a humorous look at motherhood.
Jessi’s first collection of essays, You’ll Grow Out of It, focuses on her dating life, becoming a woman, getting married later in life, and the birth of her son. Yes, Please by Amy Poehler is another memoir filled with heart and humor.
Absolutely am not the target audience for this but can appreciate jessi and her stories.
Read if you want to fear motherhood
So why the low rating? Well for one I just can’t rate books with a lot of profanity well. It’s who I am. In this case it was a double blow, because while some of the language is «played for laughs» a lot of it is coming from a place of true rage, and while I acknowledge I have absolutely been there, I found it intensely feeding my own self-pity rage. This really leads into the second reason, which is while I felt so seen and so amused by bits, I’d say maybe 2/3rds felt like self-pity indulgence. Again, I’ve been there. If I had the energy? tenacity? motivation? to actually write it down I’m sure most if not all of the topics would come up. I mean, I’m pretty sure every mother despite sexuality has dreamed of having a wife because when you 24/7 care for someone (or multiple someones) you can’t help but fantasize about having just one person who will care for you on the level you’re caring for others. So while it’s probably hypocritical to say «no judgement» because I am literally giving a star rating judgement, I get it. I just also know that while it’s nice? to know other people are there, spending 10-30 minutes of an audiobook in a fantasy about «what ifs» doesn’t leave me personally with more than a growing bitterness about my situation.
Therefore, the rating. On average it was «ok» so that’s how we’re at Goodread’s two stars. Quite honestly it was more like a 4-5 star for 1/3rd, 1-2 stars for 2/3rds. I don’t regret reading it. In fact, I’m glad I did. But I also am not sure I could recommend the entirety, and even the parts I would recommend would have to come with a caveat due to the profanity.
I started listening to I’ll Show Myself Out from comedian Jessi Klein on Mother’s Day, which made for the perfect day to dive into this bold collection of essays that tackles the topic of parenthood with “brutal honesty, candid emotion, and humor” (Publishers Weekly).
I was only a few essays in before I was ready to press this book into the hands of every woman I know who, like me, is between the ages of 30 and 40 and the parent of young children. “Read this so you don’t feel so alone or misunder I started listening to I’ll Show Myself Out from comedian Jessi Klein on Mother’s Day, which made for the perfect day to dive into this bold collection of essays that tackles the topic of parenthood with “brutal honesty, candid emotion, and humor” (Publishers Weekly).
I was only a few essays in before I was ready to press this book into the hands of every woman I know who, like me, is between the ages of 30 and 40 and the parent of young children. “Read this so you don’t feel so alone or misunderstood,» I want to say to them. «Also, so you can laugh a lot. Because you need a dose of that right now.”
Any mother who’s being honest and secure enough with herself can admit this role is TOUGH (despite social media influencers who want to convince us otherwise). So I appreciate someone who, with essays like “The Car Seat” and “Bread and Cheese” (about the tendencies of children who are picky eaters) validates the modern-day frustrations of a job that is simultaneously the most challenging and most rewarding that most of us will ever take on.
In PW’s starred-review of this read, mention is given to how, in between moments of hilarity, Klein drops in unexpected glimpses of joy—her reminder that “being a parent is a lot like having a dream … Most of it, even when it’s ugly, is beautiful.”
It might take being a parent to unpack those words, but I whole-heartedly endorse the sentiment.
Also, if you do wind up reading this one, audio is 100 percent the way to go. Klein does an excellent job with the narration. I was sad to reach the end, having taken an odd degree of comfort in the dry delivery and dark humor of her words.
Related: One of my favorite essays in the book is “An Open Love Letter to Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent». It’s a lovely little read, but even MORE lovely was seeing how the power couple surprised her during her May 19, 2022 appearance on the TODAY Show.
Didn’t know who the author was when I got the audiobook from the library.
Most of the stories/vignettes are about how tough it is being a mom to a 3 yo. She had NO idea it would be this exhausting. She seems so “who knew?” so much, I thought the son was unplanned. The author does admit they were totally unprepared knowledge wise (even though they do seem to have a lot of products) to care for a baby. It seems I did more research on how to care for a puppy than they did.
Then, after about half way Didn’t know who the author was when I got the audiobook from the library.
Most of the stories/vignettes are about how tough it is being a mom to a 3 yo. She had NO idea it would be this exhausting. She seems so “who knew?” so much, I thought the son was unplanned. The author does admit they were totally unprepared knowledge wise (even though they do seem to have a lot of products) to care for a baby. It seems I did more research on how to care for a puppy than they did.
Then, after about half way in, I learned she had In Vitro. So, she went way out of her way (and nature) to have this child. Then we find out that not only does she have a day time nanny, but she had (has?) a nanny for the night time too! And a nanny travels with the family. WTF?
I’ve been thinking about this books for weeks after reading it. So much of it resonated with me, or echoed sentiments expressed by friends in motherhood. Just, wow.
“The truth is that motherhood is a hero’s journey. For most of us, it’s not a journey outward to the most fantastic and farthest flung places, but inward, downward, to the deepest parts of your strength. To the innermost buried core of everything you are made of but didn’t know was there. And what I’ve learned, now that I’m finally sa I’ve been thinking about this books for weeks after reading it. So much of it resonated with me, or echoed sentiments expressed by friends in motherhood. Just, wow.
“Find you a man who looks at you the way Nate and Jeremiah look at Nate and Jeremiah.”
“You are allowed to lose your hair. You are beautiful with or without your hair. I used to lie awake at night fretting that the loss of my hair would equal the loss of my femininity. Now I know the most feminine thing in the world is self acceptance, pride in who you are, what you’ve sacrificed, what you’ve lost, how you fought and cried and persisted to turn your losses into gains….I have found my way to the land of no fucks and now I can see it. Further years on earth, should I be so lucky to be blessed with them, will bring further shedding of everything that doesn’t matter and never really did.”
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