And (tu) mi manchi turns into (lei) mi manca. Well, when speaking formally, Italians replace the 2nd person singular with the feminine 3rd person singular. This book is totally irresistible!” - Edan Lepucki, author of California and Woman No.Mi mancate un sacco, ragazzi. “ I Miss You When I Blink is a delightful, thought-provoking collection of essays, written with such spark and vulnerability that I was alternately laughing out loud and gasp-sighing at its poignancy. The result is a kind of wisdom in these essays that comes from making so many wrong turns they strangely add up to something that is exactly right.” – Claire Cameron, author of The Last Neanderthal The tone is so perfect - calibrated and balanced - and I don’t know how she pulled that off. “It feels like we are sitting at a table together and having the best conversation about all the things that truly matter. I’m ready to read it again.” – Jenny Lawson, author of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest Wry, intelligent, and searingly honest, this book is a joy.” What a treat to spend time with her distinctive voice as she plumbs life’s quotidian moments to unearth deeper, universal truths. “Mary Laura Philpott is the friend you call when you want to cry but need to laugh. Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers and Modern Lovers Mary Laura is a generous and funny guide to the midlife conundrums.” This book is inspiring for those of us with small children underfoot and 40 close on the horizon. “What I love most about Mary Laura Philpott and her wonderful book is that she-self-proclaimed type A, obsessive achiever-gives herself permission to change. Dani Shapiro, author of Hourglass and Inheritance Mary Laura Philpott is going to make a whole lot of readers feel seen and understood.” This marvelous collection of essays belongs on the bookshelf sandwiched between Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron. “At once rueful, hilarious, brave, and inspiring, I Miss You When I Blink is beautifully relatable and reassuring, even as it makes you pause and think. Ann Patchett, author of This Is the Story of Happy Marriage and Commonwealth I Miss You When I Blink made me laugh, it made me cry. In her willingness to tell her own story, she taps into a universal truth for so many women: we plan to do it all until we find we can’t do anything anymore. Everything in her life is done on time and exactly right, until, of course, it all starts to fall apart. “Mary Laura Philpott is relentlessly funny, self-effacing and charming as she tells the story of living as a triple-A-plus perfectionist. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic Thank God she has finally written a memoir! By offering these dispatches from her own life experience, she leaves us thinking about ourselves - where we’ve been, where we’re going, and who we really want to be.” “Mary Laura Philpott is a writer, artist, and creator of singular spark and delight. For signed or personalized copies, order from Parnassus Books. Highlighted on must-read or most-anticipated lists from Newsweek, BuzzFeed, Town & Country, theSkimm, ELLE Australia, Lit Hub, Southern Living, Bustle, The Millions, BookRiot, Garden & Gun, and the Chicago Review of Books.Featured on NPR’s All Things Considered.You can call upon your many selves to figure out who you are, who you’re not, and where you belong. Most of all, Philpott shows that when you stop feeling satisfied with your life, you don’t have to burn it all down and set off on a transcontinental hike (unless you want to, of course). She offers up her own stories to show that identity crises don’t happen just once or only at midlife reassures us that small, recurring personal re-inventions are both normal and necessary and advises that if you’re going to faint, you should get low to the ground first. In this collection full of spot-on observations about home, work, and creative life, Philpott takes on the conflicting pressures of modern adulthood with wit and heart. 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? She’d done everything “right,” but she felt all wrong. Stuck in a daily grind of overflowing calendars, grueling small talk, and sprawling traffic. Mary Laura Philpott thought she’d cracked the code: Always be right, and you’ll always be happy.īut 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.
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