I Love You and I'm Leaving You Anyway: A Memoir

Television writer Tracy McMillan’s comic literary road trip into the heart and soul of her relationship with her father—a convicted pimp, drug dealer, and felon—and what it has meant for her relationships with men. Like a cross between The Glass Castle and Hypocrite in a Poufy White Dress, I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyway is funny, inspiring, and truly unique. |

Blessed with beauty and brains, television writer Tracy McMillan was not only able to parlay her talents into a killer Hollywood career but also able to attract a rather eclectic assortment of men as well. Unfortunately, the "right" kind of men felt wrong all too often, while the "wrong" ones felt so, so right. The result was three failed marriages and countless catastrophic romances, all by the age of forty. Despite Tracy's successful ascension into the privileged world of pool houses, premieres, and big-time producer deals, she just couldn't break her pattern of questionable choices in matters of the heart. That is, until she finally figured out her relationship with the first man she ever loved: her father, a wildly flamboyant pimp, drug dealer, and convicted felon who spent most of his daughter's life behind bars . . . and until she set about raising the son who taught her everything else she needed to know about men, love, and life.

I Love You and I'm Leaving You Anyway is the comic, tragic, unflinchingly real, and ultimately victorious true story of how one woman learned to love herself no matter what. It is an inspiring testament to the power of change that proves we can all grow from even our most flawed relationships.

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“Yes, Tracy McMillain was raised by a PIMP. And if that headline doesn’t grab you, the juicy and compelling literary mash-up inside will. This book reads as if Nora Ephron wroteThe Glass Castle or Chelsea Handler penned Precious. I LOVE YOU AND I’M LEAVING YOU ANYWAY is a hilarious, modern hybrid for the modern, thinking ladies of today. 1/2 self-help, 1/2 memoir, Tracy careens ADD-style between her jacked-up love life and the even more-jacked-up childhood that got her there. Self-aware and delicious and destined for Oprah’s couch, if not to become the new Oprah herself, Tracy is a post-Obama heroine/guru for funny lovelorn chicks everywhere. And, yes, I should add, I cried.” - Jill Soloway

“Tracy’s book is the biggest ‘WOW’ book I have read in a long time. It is super FUNNY and inspiring. I am awed by how grounded and self effacing Tracy can be about such a peculiar upbringing and how one can grow through all kinds of relationships” - Mariel Hemingway

“This is everything a memoir should be: hilarious, heartbreaking, and gorgeously written. By the time you finish this book, you’ll want to marry Tracy McMillan, too.” - Diablo Cody