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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, me

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Author

Mary Laura Philpott

Publisher

Atria Books

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781982102821

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Biography, Essays, Journals & Letters