Name: I Miss You When I Blink: Essays, Paperback/Mary Laura Philpott
Brand: Atria Books
Price: 122.99 RON
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A charmingly relatable and wise memoir-in-essays by acclaimed writer and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott, " the modern day reincarnation of ... Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin -- all rolled into one " ( The Washington Post ), about what happened after she checked off all the boxes on a 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. Lost. Stuck in a daily grind of overflowing calendars, grueling small talk, and sprawling traffic. She'd done everything "right" but still felt all wrong. What'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? Taking on the conflicting pressures of modern adulthood, Philpott provides a "frank and funny look at what happens when, in the midst of a tidy life, there occur impossible-to-ignore tugs toward creativity, meaning, and the possibility of something more" ( Southern Living ). She offers up her own stories to show that identity crises don't happen just once or only at midlife and reassures us that small, recurring personal re-inventions are both normal and necessary. Most of all, in this "warm embrace of a life live