Published in 2016
304 pages
Lauren Weedman is an award-winning comedic actress, playwright, and author. Her television credits include The Daily Show, True Blood, United States of Tara, Reno 911!, Curb Your Enthusiasm, New Girl, and Arrested Development.
What is this book about?
Lauren Weedman is not okay.
She’s living what should be the good life in sunny Los Angeles. After a writing gig 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 Fresh Perspectives on Having It All, 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 nanny, 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.
