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From the
New York Times bestselling author of
I See You Made an Effort comes a timely and hilarious chronicle of downward mobility, financial and emotional. With signature "sharp wit" (NPR), Annabelle Gurwitch gives an irreverent and empathetic voice to a generation hurtling into their next chapter with no safety net and proving that our no-frills new normal doesn't mean a deficit of humor.
In these essays, Gurwitch embraces homesharing, welcoming a housing-insecure young couple and a bunny rabbit into her home. The mother of a college student in recovery who sheds the gender binary, she relearns to parent, one pronoun at a time. She wades into the dating pool and flunks the magic of tidying up.
You're Leaving When? is for anybody who thought they had a semblance of security but wound up with a fragile economy and a blankie. Gurwitch offers stories of resilience, adaptability, low-rent redemption and the kindness of
strangers. Even on Zoom.
Annabelle Gurwitch is an actress, activist and
New York Times bestselling author of
I See You Made an Effort (a Thurber Prize finalist). Other books:
Wherever You Go, There They Are; You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up (with Jeff Kahn); and
Fired! (also a Showtime comedy special). She's written for
The New Yorker, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Oprah Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and
Hadassah Magazine amongst other publications. She is currently adapting
You're Leaving When? for HBO with Bill Maher executive producing, centering on her Los Angeles Times op-ed about hosting an at-risk housing insecure couple in her home which was recognized with a 2020 Los Angeles Press Club excellence in journalism award. Gurwitch was the longtime cohost of
Dinner and a Movie on TBS; a regular commentator on NPR; host of
WA$TED for the Discovery Channel, the news anchor of HBO's award-winning
Not Necessarily the News, and a resident humorist for TheNation.com. Her acting credits include: S
einfeld, Murphy Brown, Boston Legal, Dexter and
Melvin Goes to Dinner. She performs on the Moth Mainstage, Carolines on Broadway and at arts centers around the country. Gurwitch thought she'd be empty nesting by now; instead, she lives with her cat and child—a college graduate of the COVID class of 2020. She co-hosts the Tiny Victories podcast on the Maximum Fun Podcast Network, which Vulture called a "bright spot of light and laughter in 2020."
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Presented in partnership with the National JCC Literary Consortium and Books and Books, Coral Gables.
Thursday, March 11
5:00–6:00 PM
$6 talk only; $35 for the talk and book
Online via Zoom
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