“You’ll Grow Out of It” by Jessi Klein

The contents of this book could be roughly summed up as a hilarious take on what it means to be a woman, but not in the stereotypical sense. I thought that I would detest this book. However, I was incredibly wrong.

Klein is a hilarious writer, she often talks about her experience with stand-up comedy and comedic writing. (Funnily enough, I went to the same undergrad college as her, which is where she started sketch writing.) She could be writing about anything and I’d probably listen and think that it was amusing just due to her writing style. Plenty of footnotes are used, more often than not to call herself out on whatever slight lie she stuck into the test. (These are usually about the amount of wine she was drinking, or something similar.) The whole thing is very conversational and feels as though the stories are being relayed to you by a friend instead of an author.

And the stories themselves are great. Each chapter deals with a separate topic, they run in a sort of rough chronological order, but not completely. And yeah, most of them are about not fitting into everyone’s idea of what a woman should be or act like. Speaking as someone who has struggled with this for her life, Klein just gets it. You get a great sense of what it’s like to be Klein, but in my experience, most women can find a piece of themselves within her voice.

So just goes to show that first impressions are still wrong, this book is entertaining, witty, insightful, and a pleasure to read. I can’t recommend it enough!