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Miss Fortune: Fresh Perspectives on Having It All from Someone Who Is Not Okay
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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 essays, 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.
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Unabridged
Street Date:
03/22/2016
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9781515923756
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Lauren Weedman. (2016). Miss Fortune: Fresh Perspectives on Having It All from Someone Who Is Not Okay. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc.

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Lauren Weedman. 2016. Miss Fortune: Fresh Perspectives On Having It All From Someone Who Is Not Okay. Tantor Media, Inc.

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Lauren Weedman, Miss Fortune: Fresh Perspectives On Having It All From Someone Who Is Not Okay. Tantor Media, Inc, 2016.

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Lauren Weedman. Miss Fortune: Fresh Perspectives On Having It All From Someone Who Is Not Okay. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc, 2016.

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