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

Author: Weedman, Lauren

Color: Yellow

Number Of Pages: 304

Details:

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.

Reviews:

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

About the Author:

Lauren Weedman is an award-winning comedic actress, playwright and author. Her television credits include  The Daily Show,  True Blood,  United States of Tara,  Reno 911,  Curb Your Enthusiasm,  New Girl,  Arrested Development, Horny Patty on HBO's  HUNG and Doris on HBO's  Looking. Film credits include  Imagine That,  Date Night and Judd Apatow's  A Five Year Engagement. Weedman's first book,  A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body:Tales from a Life of Cringe, was named by Kirkus as a top ten Indie book for 2007. Weedman lives in Santa Monica and is the host of the popular Moth Storytelling series in LA. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. ***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected proof*** Copyright ©2016 Lauren Weedman Love of My LifeMy 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 tur...

EAN: 9780142180235

Release Date: 15-03-2016

Languages: English

Item Note: Great shape- pages are unmarked and sharp.Has a remainder mark. Paperback Used - Very Good Ships fast! 2016

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood

Binding: Paperback