Bari Weiss of the Wall Street Journal checks out Jessi Klein’s “You’ll Grow Out of It” in NY1’s The Book Reader.
If you’re someone that loves funny people, you should read Jessi Klein’s new book of essays “You’ll Grow Out of It.” You will enjoy it.
But if you are, say, a feminist that wears glasses but not thongs, hates Gwyneth Paltrow but obsessively reads GOOP, thinks barre method is torture, but has to admit that the basics are onto something when your butt is noticeably tighter,started watching the Bachelor ironically only to realize that there was nothing at all ironic about it, you will tear through this book like a warm baguette slathered with brie.
That is how pleasurable it is to read a book that feels like it was written for you.
The author is the head writer for “Inside Amy Schumer,” and the themes explored in that show are all here, but in Klein’s self-deprecating (but confident!) emotionally raw (but not cheesy!), honest (but generous!) voice.
Can you tell that I like it yet? Not since Tina Fey’s “BossyPants” has a book made me cackle out loud in public.
Some choice lines:
A gorgeous woman who walks by on a subway platform makes our heroine feel like “a Ziploc bag filled with old shrimp.”
Of her favorite story: “Every Anthropologie store feels like the manger in which Zooey Deschanel was born.”
On being called Ma’am: “Ma’am is the onomatopoeia of drowning in a lake-size bowl of borscht. Ma’am sounds like a species of frog that just watches reality television all day. Ma’am sounds like a woman whose body is mostly cheese whiz.”
On getting an epidural: “I would have loved to give birth the way women did in the 1950s when they were basically chloroformed with a rag at eight months pregnant and didn’t wake up til their baby was two weeks old.”
I have to one thing to say: yessss, kween.