In this funny and relatable essay collection, Mindy Kaling navigates preschool admissions, attends a Chanel sale in sweats, hunts down her stolen car, confronts reading glasses at forty-six, and discovers that even when you’ve built the life you want, you still text three friends, “Is this normal?”

Acceptance

In this hilarious essay, navigating Los Angeles’s cutthroat private school admissions becomes an unexpectedly personal education for New York Times bestselling author Mindy Kaling, where the parents are interviewed, everyone pretends to be relaxed, and nobody is fooling anyone.

The Devil Pulled Prada

Fashionable clothes and validation were great while they lasted. But what happens when acclaimed writer, actress, producer, and director Mindy Kaling can no longer fit into sample sizes? In this liberating essay, she learns that maybe there’s something more valuable.

Grand Theft Auto

Is it the right choice for Mindy Kaling, one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People,” to track down the person who stole her ugly car? It’s not only right—it’s kind of exciting.

Well, We All Hate Skiing

A fabulous vacation destination? A winter wonderland? That big fat lie is exposed once and for all in a bracing essay by Mindy Kaling.

The Chanel Sale

How exhilarating is a sale? For Mindy Kaling, exhilarating enough to sprint to Rodeo Drive the moment she hears Chanel is offering the impossible—a discount.

An Update on My Eyes

There comes a moment in every woman’s life when she realizes the lighting isn’t getting worse—she is. Mindy Kaling has arrived.

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