Please Excuse My Daughter
by Julie Klam
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Author: Julie KlamEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-27
ISBN: 1594489807
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
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Book Review: So sad the book is over!
Summary: 5 Stars
I just finished this book and LOVED it! My friend recommended it to me and now I want to recommend it to everyone else. I must have laughed out loud at least 100 times plus I found it very touching at points. You won't be disappointed, this is a must read.
Summary of Please Excuse My Daughter
A woman's hilarious, bittersweet account of growing up in a family of career-shunning, dependence-seeking women and her journey to a state of twenty-first-century self-reliance.Julie Klam was raised as the only daughter of a Jewish family in the exclusive WASP stronghold of Bedford, New York. Her mother was sharp, glamorous, and funny, but did not think that work was a woman's responsibility. Her father was fully supportive, not just of his wife's staying at home, but also of her extravagant lifestyle. Her mother's offbeat parenting style-taking Julie out of school to go to lunch at Bloomingdale's, for example-made her feel well-cared-for (and well-dressed) but left her unprepared for graduating and entering the real world. She had been brought up to look pretty and wait for a rich man to sweep her off her feet. But what happened if he never showed up?
When Julie gets married to a hardworking but not wealthy man-one who expects her to be part of a modern couple and contribute financially to the marriage-she realizes how ambivalent and ill-equipped she is for life. Once she gives birth to a daughter, she knows she must grow up, get to work, and teach her child the self-reliance that she never learned.
Delivered in an uproariously funny, sweet, self-effacing, and utterly memorable voice, Please Excuse My Daughter is a bighearted memoir from an irresistible new writer.
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