I Miss You When I Blink: Essays Audiobook (Free)

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“I’ve spent my adult lifestyle prowling bookshelves for the modern-day reincarnation of the best writers—Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin—all rolled into one…Good news: I have finally discovered their successor.” —Elisabeth Egan, The Washington Post

Acclaimed about I Miss You AFTER I Blink: Essays essayist and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott presents a charmingly relatable and wise memoir-in-essays in what occurred after she checked off all of the boxes on her successful lifestyle’s to-do list and noticed she might need to reinvent the list—and herself.

Mary Laura Philpott thought she’d cracked the code: Continually be correct, and you’ll always be happy.

But once she’d finished her existence’s to-do list (job, spouse, house, infants—verify!), she discovered that instead of feeling content material and successful, she felt stressed. Lost. Stuck in a daily grind of overflowing calendars, grueling small talk, and sprawling traffic. She’d performed everything “correct,” but she sensed all incorrect. What’s the worse failure, she considered: smiling and keeping the course, or blowing it all up and running away? And so are those the just options?

Within this memoir-in-essays full of spot-on observations about house, work, and innovative life, Philpott takes on the conflicting stresses of modern adulthood with wit and center. She gives up her personal stories to show that identity crises don’t happen just once or only at midlife; reassures us that little, recurring personal re-inventions are both normal and necessary; and advises that if you’re likely to faint, you should get low to the ground first. Most of all, Philpott demonstrates when you quit feeling content with your life, you don’t need to burn it all down and set off on a transcontinental hike (unless you want to, obviously). You are able to contact upon your many selves to figure out who you are, who you’re not, and where you belong. Who among us isn’t trying to do that?

Like a pep talk from a sister, I Miss You ONCE I Blink may be the funny, poignant, and deeply affecting book you’ll wish to talk about with all of your friends, as you learn what Philpott provides figured out on the way: that multiple issues can be accurate of us at once—which sometimes doing things wrong is the way to accomplish life right.