Miss Fortune
Subtitle: fresh perspectives on having it all from someone who is not okay
By: Lauren Weedman
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780142180235
Subjects: Humor; Biography; Conduct of life; Comedians; Actors
Description: "Lauren Weedman is not okay. She's living what should be the good life in sunny Los Angeles. After a gig as a correspondent with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, she scored parts in blockbuster movies, which led to memorable recurring roles on HBO's Hung and Looking. She had a loving husband and an adorable baby boy. In these comedic memoirs, she turns a piercingly observant, darkly funny lens on the ways her life is actually Not Okay. She tells the story of her husband's affair with their babysitter, her first and only threesome, a tattoo gone horribly awry, and how the birth of her son caused mama drama with her own mother and birth mother with laugh-out-loud wit and a powerful undercurrent of vulnerability that pulls off a stunning balance between comedy and tragedy"--