asnyder331 's review for:

I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood by Jessi Klein

3.0

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

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I know a lot of the complaints about this are surrounding how privileged she is, and yeah, this is absolutely a "rich" white woman's story, but it still has its merits. I really appreciated some of her stories and how they related to my own first time mom experience, specifically her point that sometimes you have to pay to build your village nowadays really hit hard as someone who doesn't live down the street from grandparents. I think this book has to be taken for what it is, a woman embracing the chaos of motherhood and acknowledging the ways it breaks you down