num_pages: 259
description: For readers of Lena Dunham Allie Brosh and Roxane Gay this funny poignant daringly honest collection of personal essays introduces Mara Wilsonthe former child actress best known for her starring roles in Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfireas a brilliant new chronicler of the experience that is growing up young and female. Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place: as the only child on a film set full of adults the first daughter in a house full of boys the sole clinically depressed member of the cheerleading squad a valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California and one of the few former child actors who has never been in jail or rehab. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of Melrose Place to losing her mother at a young age to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywood these essays tell the story of one young womans journey from accidental fame to relative (but happy) obscurity. But they also illuminate a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself and figuring out who you are and where you belong. Exquisitely crafted revelatory and full of the crack comic timing that has made Mara Wilson a sought-after live storyteller and Twitter star Where Am I Now? introduces a witty perceptive and refreshingly candid new literary voice.
language: English
title: Where Am I Now?
publisher: Penguin Books