Please Excuse My Daughter - Softcover

"If tragedy plus time equals comedy, Julie Klam makes the most of that equation. Her funny, poignant, and original first memoir is a must read for anyone who has ever had a mother, a crazy boyfriend, or has been in therapy. This is gallows humor from a girl who lived life at the end of her rope." -Carrie Fisher, author of "Postcards from the Edge" "Julie Klam is one funny writer. "Please Excuse My Daughter" is also unstintingly honest and very smart; a slyly moving book, it stays with you." -David Rakoff, author of "Don't Get Too Comfortable" and Fraud "Julie Klam's memoir is so hilarious and touching and terrific that I like to go around claiming the reminiscences in it are mine. If you read this book and don't think it's droll and funny and happy and sad, then you and I surely disagree about everything." -Patricia Marx, author of "Him Her Him Again The End of Him" "In a memoir that is often hilarious, sometimes poignant, and always endearing, Julie Klam lets us in on her deepest secrets and invites us to share in her struggles and triumphs as a daughter, wife, mother, and writer. "Please Excuse My Daughter" is an exhilarating debut from a major new writer, one with an almost-magical knack for finding comedy in the most unlikely places." -Rich Cohen, author of "Sweet and Low: A Family Story"

Whimsically recounts the author's experiences of being raised by parents who believed that the working world was a man's domain and that her priority was to marry into wealth, describing the refocus that occurred when she fell in love with and married a husband who expected her to contribute financially. Reprint.