Mary Laura Philpott. (2019). I Miss You When I Blink: Essays. Atria Books.

Mary Laura Philpott. 2019. I Miss You When I Blink: Essays. Atria Books.

Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays. Atria Books, 2019.

Mary Laura Philpott. I Miss You When I Blink: Essays. Atria Books, 2019.

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0439-1/{A37DC556-392D-4C70-9E57-164F0C565451}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0439-1/{A37DC556-392D-4C70-9E57-164F0C565451}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0439-1/A37/DC5/56/{A37DC556-392D-4C70-9E57-164F0C565451}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0439-1/A37/DC5/56/{A37DC556-392D-4C70-9E57-164F0C565451}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781982102821
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781982102821
     2. • type: ASIN
        • value: B07GNW5TKB
   • name: Kindle Book
   • id: ebook-kindle
3. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781982102821
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • id: ebook-overdrive

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9781982102814

mediaType

eBook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Mary Laura Philpott

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

I Miss You When I Blink

dateAdded

2019-04-10T22:41:00Z

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=426&titleID=4245962
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Wake County Public Libraries (NC)
     • id: 1893

sortTitle

I Miss You When I Blink Essays

crossRefId

4245962

subtitle

Essays

id

A37DC556-392D-4C70-9E57-164F0C565451

starRating

3.3

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • fileName: IMissYouWhenIBlink_9781982102821_4245962
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 3548982
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781982102821
   • rights:
     1. • type: Copying
        • value: 0
     2. • type: Printing
        • value: 0
     3. • type: Lending
        • value: 0
     4. • type: ReadAloud
        • value: 0
     5. • type: ExpirationRights
        • value: 0
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
   • onSaleDate: 4/2/2019
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a37dc556-392d-4c70-9e57-164f0c565451&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • fileName: IMissYouWhenIBlink_9781982102821_4245962
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781982102821
     2. • type: ASIN
        • value: B07GNW5TKB
   • name: Kindle Book
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-kindle
   • onSaleDate: 4/2/2019
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a37dc556-392d-4c70-9e57-164f0c565451&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
3. • fileName: IMissYouWhenIBlink_9781982102821_4245962
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781982102821
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 4/2/2019
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a37dc556-392d-4c70-9e57-164f0c565451&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

keywords

1. • value: mid-life
2. • value: pray
3. • value: Gen X
4. • value: love
5. • value: essay collection
6. • value: Midlife Crisis
7. • value: eat
8. • value: Essays
9. • value: wild
10. • value: Parnassus
11. • value: Nora Ephron
12. • value: anne lamott
13. • value: National Bestseller
14. • value: Elizabeth Gilbert
15. • value: turning forty
16. • value: edan lepucki
17. • value: independent bookstores
18. • value: dani shapiro
19. • value: book club books
20. • value: erma bombeck
21. • value: ann patchett
22. • value: NPT
23. • value: emma straub
24. • value: best books of the year
25. • value: indie next
26. • value: A Word on Words
27. • value: Jean Kerr
28. • value: musing
29. • value: best books of 2019
30. • value: Siba
31. • value: Ada Calhoun
32. • value: okra pick
33. • value: #1 indie next list
34. • value: #1 indie next pick
35. • value: american bookseller association
36. • value: cynthia d'apprix sweeney
37. • value: lawrie colwin
38. • value: mary laura philpott
39. • value: nashville public television
40. • value: nyt new in town
41. • value: parnassus books
42. • value: penguins with people problems
43. • value: why we can't sleep at night
44. • value: writers like nora ephron
45. • value: npr's favorite books of 2019
46. • value: esquire best nonfiction of 2019

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Philpott, Mary Laura
   • bioText: Mary Laura Philpott, nationally bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink and Bomb Shelter, writes essays and memoirs that examine the overlap of the absurd and the profound in everyday life. Her writing has been featured by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among many other publications. A former bookseller, she also hosted an interview program on Nashville Public Television for several years. Mary Laura lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her family.
   • name: Mary Laura Philpott

publishDate

2019-04-02T00:00:00-04:00

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

I Miss You When I Blink

fullDescription

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A charmingly relatable and wise memoir-in-essays by acclaimed writer and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott, "the modern day reincarnation of...Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin—all rolled into one" (The Washington Post), about what happened after she checked off all the boxes on a successful life's to-do list and realized she might need to reinvent the list—and herself.
Mary Laura Philpott thought she'd cracked the code: Always be right, and you'll always be happy.

But 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. Lost. Stuck in a daily grind of overflowing calendars, grueling small talk, and sprawling traffic. She'd done everything "right" but still felt all wrong. 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?

Taking on the conflicting pressures of modern adulthood, Philpott provides a "frank and funny look at what happens when, in the midst of a tidy life, there occur impossible-to-ignore tugs toward creativity, meaning, and the possibility of something more" (Southern Living). She offers up her own stories to show that identity crises don't happen just once or only at midlife and reassures us that small, recurring personal re-inventions are both normal and necessary. Most of all, in this "warm embrace of a life lived imperfectly" (Esquire), Philpott shows that when you stop feeling satisfied with your life, you don't have to burn it all down. You can call 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?

"Be forewarned that you'll laugh out loud and cry, probably in the same essay. Philpott has a wonderful way of finding humor, even in darker moments. This is a book you'll want to buy for yourself and every other woman you know" (Real Simple).

popularity

1149

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/L1BLQAAAA2a/products/a37dc556-392d-4c70-9e57-164f0c565451/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json

id

a37dc556-392d-4c70-9e57-164f0c565451

starRating

3.3

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0439-1/{A37DC556-392D-4C70-9E57-164F0C565451}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0439-1/{A37DC556-392D-4C70-9E57-164F0C565451}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0439-1/A37/DC5/56/{A37DC556-392D-4C70-9E57-164F0C565451}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0439-1/A37/DC5/56/{A37DC556-392D-4C70-9E57-164F0C565451}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Biography & Autobiography
2. • value: Family & Relationships
3. • value: Self-Improvement
4. • value: Nonfiction

publishDateText

04/02/2019

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9781982102814

mediaType

eBook

shortDescription

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A charmingly relatable and wise memoir-in-essays by acclaimed writer and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott, "the modern day reincarnation of...Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin—all rolled into one" (The Washington Post), about what happened after she checked off all the boxes on a successful life's to-do list and realized she might need to reinvent the list—and herself.
Mary Laura Philpott thought she'd cracked the code: Always be right, and you'll always be happy.

But 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. Lost. Stuck in a daily grind of overflowing calendars, grueling small talk, and sprawling traffic. She'd done everything "right" but still felt all wrong. What's the worse failure, she...

sortTitle

I Miss You When I Blink Essays

crossRefId

4245962

subtitle

Essays

publisher

Atria Books

bisacCodes

1. • code: BIO026000
   • description: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs
2. • code: FAM054000
   • description: Family & Relationships / Life Stages / Mid-Life
3. • code: SEL016000
   • description: Self-Help / Personal Growth / Happiness