Miss Fortune - Fresh Perspectives on Having It All from Someone Who Is Not Okay

Zusatztext Los Angeles Times bestseller “A mix of humor and humanity.”— The Oregonian   “I found myself not merely smiling, but cackling — and, in turn, tearing up or sighing with sad recognition… Weedman is skilled at using humor as a way in rather than a diversion. Even and especially at her most hilarious, she’s willing to reveal her earnest underbelly.”— Los Angeles Review of Books            “Lauren Weedman's Miss Fortune is like a pearl that washed up on a beach full of seaweed, tar balls and plastic six-pack holders. It's a jewel sparkling amid a landscape of literary pollution.”— LA Weekly “ Miss Fortune is so gloriously smart, deeply funny, and nakedly vulnerable, I missed it after I finished the last page the way one misses the best friend you ever had after she goes away. Lauren Weedman tells her sexiest, saddest, strangest, sweetest stories with a thrillingly unabashed voice that’s as charming as it is insightful. I laughed. I cried. I thanked my lucky stars I didn’t ever have a threesome with co-workers in the Netherlands. But most of all, I fell in love with Lauren Weedman and the raw and complicated truths she so honestly explores on every page of this absorbing book.” — Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author of Wild "Weedman's charm and self-deprecating humor easily draw the reader in, and her willingness to tangle with hard truths make this a deeply affecting account of salvaging a life from wreckage." — Publisher's Weekly "An intelligent, hilarious, and bittersweet collection." — Kirkus Informationen zum Autor Lauren Weedman Klappentext Los Angeles Times Bestseller For fans of Jenny Lawson, Sarah Colonna, and Lena Dunham, an acutely-observed and hilarious take on what happens when life doesn't end up quite as you'd expected. "Gloriously smart, deeply funny, and nakedly vulnerable … I laughed. I cried. I thanked my lucky stars I didn't ever have a threesome with co-workers in the Netherlands. But most of all, I fell in love with Lauren Weedman and the raw and complicated truths she so honestly explores on every page." -Cheryl Strayed, author of the New York Times bestseller Wild Lauren Weedman is not okay. She's living what should be the good life in sunny Los Angeles. After a gig as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, she scored parts in blockbuster movies, which led to memorable recurring roles on HBO's Hung and Looking. She had a loving husband and an adorable baby boy. In these comedic essays, Weedman turns a piercingly observant, darkly funny lens on the ways her life is actually Not Okay. She tells the story of her husband's affair with their babysitter, her first and only threesome, a tattoo gone horribly awry, and how the birth of her son caused mama drama with her own mother and birth mother, all with laugh-out-loud wit and a powerful undercurrent of vulnerability that pulls off a stunning balance between comedy and tragedy. Leseprobe ***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected proof*** Copyright ©2016 Lauren Weedman Love of My Life My boyfriend, David, is organizing his sock drawer when I say to him, “You know, it just hit me: If we end up staying together, you will go down in history as the love of my life.” I lean back and position myself on the bed—fan out my skirt and fluff my hair—so that when he turns around and says it back to me, I’ll look worthy. But he doesn’t follow the script. Instead, he says, “Aww,” like he just saw a little baby with hearing aids. We’ve been together for four years. It shouldn’t feel like I just took a gigantic risk and told him that I had a crush on him. We are at the point in the relationship where we are supposed to say either “You are ...

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Los Angeles Times bestseller

A mix of humor and humanity. The Oregonian
 
I found myself not merely smiling, but cackling and, in turn, tearing up or sighing with sad recognition Weedman is skilled at using humor as a way in rather than a diversion. Even and especially at her most hilarious, she s willing to reveal her earnest underbelly. Los Angeles Review of Books           

Lauren Weedman's Miss Fortune is like a pearl that washed up on a beach full of seaweed, tar balls and plastic six-pack holders. It's a jewel sparkling amid a landscape of literary pollution. LA Weekly

Miss Fortune is so gloriously smart, deeply funny, and nakedly vulnerable, I missed it after I finished the last page the way one misses the best friend you ever had after she goes away. Lauren Weedman tells her sexiest, saddest, strangest, sweetest stories with a thrillingly unabashed voice that s as charming as it is insightful. I laughed. I cried. I thanked my lucky stars I didn t ever have a threesome with co-workers in the Netherlands. But most of all, I fell in love with Lauren Weedman and the raw and complicated truths she so honestly explores on every page of this absorbing book.
Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author of Wild

"Weedman's charm and self-deprecating humor easily draw the reader in, and her willingness to tangle with hard truths make this a deeply affecting account of salvaging a life from wreckage."
Publisher's Weekly

"An intelligent, hilarious, and bittersweet collection."
Kirkus

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Lauren Weedman, Weedman Lauren
• Edition: Plume USA
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780142180235
• ISBN: 978-0-14-218023-5
• Pages: 304
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Thème: Plume
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Autobiographien (div.), HUMOR / General, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General, Popular psychology