Kari Lizer on Aren’t You Forgetting Someone?: Essays from My Mid-Life Revenge

Shelley Emling is editor of The Girlfriend and is also AARP’s Executive Editor, Specialized Content. Previously she worked for Cox Newspapers as a London-based foreign correspondent for nearly 10 years and a Miami-based foreign correspondent for three years. She’s also the author of five books.  

Kari Lizer is the creator of the award-winning show The New Adventures of Old Christine (which was based on her life as a single, working mom) and co-executive producer of Will & Grace. What does it feel like to have your kids leave the house at the same time your parents might need to move in? With self-deprecating humor, sharp wit, and aplomb worthy of Nora Ephron, Kari Lizer gives in Aren’t You Forgetting Someone?: Essays from My Mid-Life Revenge (Running Press Adult) an honest account of finding herself in the middle of growing up, growing old, and still figuring it all out. She finds the wry, bittersweet humor in (almost) all situations–whether it’s becoming radioactive during a thyroid cancer treatment or struggling to find her identity outside of motherhood. Aren’t You Forgetting Someone? speaks to those of us who lament the invisibility of the middle-aged woman, but also revel in the unexpected delights of newfound freedom to do whatever the hell we want while no one is looking. Actress Sarah Paulson praised Kari Lizer’s essays as “Sublime […] Moving and laugh-out-loud funny. . . No one is a more keen observer of human behavior, of the kind we all try to hide from one another. Her writing makes me feel seen[…]”