"A fiercely intelligent, hilarious, and deeply feminist collection of interrelated personal stories from Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award-winning actress and director Christine Lahti. For decades, Lahti has captivated the hearts and minds of her audience through iconic roles in Chicago Hope, Running on Empty, Housekeeping, Swing Shift, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Now, this acclaimed performer channels her creativity inward to share her own story for the first time on the page. In this poignant essay collection, Lahti focuses on three major periods of her life: her childhood, her early journey as an actress and activist, and the realities of her life as a middle-aged woman in Hollywood today. Lahti's comical and self-deprecating voice shines through in stories such as 'Kidnapped' and 'Shit Happens, ' and she takes an honest look at painful family fissures in pieces such as 'Mama Mia' and 'Running on Empty.' Taken together, these essays illuminate watershed moments in Lah

From Academy, Emmy, and Golden-Globe Award-winning actress and director Christine Lahti comes a fiercely intelligent, hilarious, and deeply feminist collection of interrelated personal stories.