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I've spent my adult life prowling bookshelves for the modern-day reincarnation of my favorite authors Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin all rolled into one...Good news: I have finally found their successor. 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 life s to-do list and realized she might need to reinvent the list and herself. Mary Laura Philpott thought she d cracked the code: Always be right, and you ll always be happy. But once she d completed her life s to-do list (job, spouse, house, babies check!) , she found that instead of feeling content and successful, she felt anxious.
About the Author
Mary Laura Philpott, author of the national bestseller (2019) and (forthcoming in 2022) , writes essays that examine the overlap of the absurd and the profound in everyday life. Her writing has been featured frequently by the New York Times and appears in such outlets as the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the Paris Review Daily, O the Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, and more. A former bookseller, she was also the Emmy-winning co-host of an interview program on Nashville Public Television for several years. Mary Laura lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her family. Find her books at your local bookstore.
