Comedian and celebrity of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious, relaxing, and inspiring collection of essays “teeming with energy and filled with laugh-out-loud occasions” (Associated Press).

“A enjoyment. Ellie Kemper may be the kind of steady, intelligent, funny, healthful woman that always only is present in yogurt commercials. But she’s actual and she’s all ours!” —Tina Fey

“Ellie is definitely a amusing and talented writer, although we’ll never know how a lot of this book the about My Squirrel Times squirrel published.”—Mindy Kaling

Match Ellie, the best-intentioned redhead nearby. You’ll laugh right alongside her as she stocks tales of her years as a child in St. Louis, whether directing and also starring in her family holiday pageant, washing her father’s car using a Brillo pad, failing to become friends using a plump squirrel in her backyard, eating her emotions while you’re watching PG-13 films, or learning to be a “sports monster” who eventually ends up warming the bench of her Department 1 field hockey team in college.

You’ll understand how she present her comedic calling in the world of improv, became a wife, mom and New Yorker, and landed the part of the bridesmaid (while simultaneously being truly a bridesmaid) in Bridesmaids. You’ll become familiar with and like the comic, upbeat, perpetually polite celebrity playing Erin Hannon on ANY OFFICE, as well as the exuberant, pink-pants-wearing star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

If you’ve have you been curious about what goes on behind the moments of your favorite shows, what it really takes to be always a soul routine “warrior,” how to recover if you accidentally fall on Doris Kearns Goodwin or tell Tina Fey on meeting her for the first time that she has “great hair—really solid and thick,” this is your opportunity to learn. But it’s also a laugh-out-loud primer on how best to keep a positive outlook in a global gone mad and exactly how not to give up on your dreams. Ellie “dives fully into each role—as professional, comedian, writer, and also wife and new mom—with an electric dedication, where one learns to reframe the picture, and if not exactly turn into a glass-half-full sort of person, at least become in a position to enjoy them” (Vogue.com).