{"product_id":"someone-will-be-with-you-shortly-notes-from-a-perfectly-imperfect-life-isbn-9780061735035","title":"Someone Will Be with You Shortly: Notes from a Perfectly Imperfect Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e“[Kogan’s] wry observations of everyday life will hearten you on your worst days, validate you on your best, and make you laugh any day at all.” — Martha Beck, author of \u003cem\u003eExpecting Adam\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Finding Your Own North Star\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSomeone Will Be with You Shortly\u003c\/em\u003e is a delectable blend of wit, whimsy, pith, and poignancy. If David Sedaris were a girl... this is the book he’d write.” — Evan Handler, author of\u003cem\u003e It's Only Temporary\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSomeone Will Be with You Shortly\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of the hilarious and poignant essays from beloved \u003cem\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e columnist Lisa Kogan. Writing in the vein of Nora Ephron, Kogan has been called \"the Erma Bombeck of our generation\" (Kelly Corrigan, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Middle Place \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eLift\u003c\/em\u003e). In \u003cem\u003eSomeone Will Be with You Shortly\u003c\/em\u003e, she brings her trademark humor to such real-life quandaries as single motherhood, aging, and sex.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eLisa Kogan is a forty-nine-year-old single mother who maintains that every human being deserves a great mattress, a comfortable pair of shoes, and a very smart shrink, and that no one has grown a decent tomato since 1963. She used to think the world wasn't all that complicated, but along came AIDS and crystal meth and the tankini, and she had to think again. Still, she's nostalgic for that time when you were forced to walk all the way across the room to change channels and there was no such thing as a spy satellite capable of spotting the precancerous mole on her left thigh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilled with self-deprecating humor and a deep appreciation for what really matters, \u003cem\u003eSomeone Will Be with You Shortly\u003c\/em\u003e is a book for anyone who has ever been unnerved by pleather pants, lunch meat, or ambivalent men (not necessarily in that order), and believes that life is a fragile bit of luck in a world based on chance.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Lisa Kogan has a singularly humane stance as she makes comic sense of the annoying and baffling facts of life. The inventor of ‘the dessert potato’ has made me laugh for years–she’s been a comfort, too.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmy Hempel, author of The Collected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Her wry observations of everyday life will hearten you on your worst days, validate you on your best, and make you laugh any day at all. Buy it, if not to keep Lisa writing, then as an investment in your own happiness. God knows you deserve one fail-safe investment.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartha Beck, author of Expecting Adam and Finding Your Own North Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lisa Kogan might just be the Erma Bombeck of our generation.  Sassy, blunt, and so damn true.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKelly Corrigan, author of The Middle Place and LIFT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If Lisa Kogan didn’t exist, Nora Ephron would have to invent her. In essays that disarm and delight, Kogan’s take on contemporary living is as irrepressibly savvy as a Prada diaper bag, as reassuringly satisfying as a PB-and-J sandwich.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s no mystery why O magazine’s Lisa Kogan is a beloved columnist. She’s self-deprecating enough to be easily relatable, whimsical enough to be reliably entertaining, and clever enough to disguise a gut-socking revelation.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kogan’s riffs on motherhood, politics, relationships, and life itself are what we wish we’d said, only sharper and funnier. This is good stuff.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The ultimate summer read—engrossing yet light and fun. From page one you’ll be laughing as the author shares her smile-inducing anecdotes.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst for Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kogan delivers stylish and funny meditations on being a single mom, Rush Limbaugh, modern media and much more. There’s laughter here, sure, but this book winningly rises above comedy to reveal a moving love of life.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In delectable bite-size essays, humor columnist Kogan casts an all-seeing eye on the annoying and hilarious idiosyncrasies of contemporary life.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRedbook Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lisa Kogan’s Someone Will Be with You Shortly is like curling up with your best, crabbiest, kindest, wisest, most singular friend on earth.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Smith, author of Two of Us: The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Beatles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lisa Kogan is the intellectual and creative love child of Noel Coward and Loretta Lynn. Someone Will Be With You Shortly is a hilarious, honest and tender chronical of everyday life as most of us really live it. 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