I Miss You When I Blink: Essays

"There aren’t many books that have made me tear up from both laughing and crying – on the same page. Mary Laura Philpott’s essays truly capture the emotional pull of mothering beyond the baby stage – coexisting, for some, with a midlife crisis-esque period. It’s the drive to devote yourself fully to your kids, knowing that in two seconds they’ll be adults themselves, battling the constant fear of personal stagnation. She establishes that there can be many “yous,” among them the childhood you, the single you, the married you, the parent you, the career you. Through sometimes painful, often funny and always heartwarming self-reflective stories, she shows readers that one of you doesn’t have to give way for another – that your many “yous” can coexist as “a crowd of selves.”"