Mary-Louise Parker is a Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe award-winning actress. Her writing has appeared in Esquire, The Riveter, Bust, and The Bullet. This is her first book.
Smart, funny, sad, entertaining, never boring. It is that rare
thing in books written by bold-faced names: a very pleasant
surprise. Put it another way: If no one knew who you were, this
would still be a book worth reading.-- "The Daily Beast"
That rarest of things: A celebrity actor's memoir that briefly
elevates the form with a literary approach and some real style.--
"Phoenix New Times"
Dear Mr. You boasts both innovative style and profound substance. .
. . Parker's writing is full of poetry, too, with lines as
startling as breaking glass. . . . Flashing backward and forward in
time, and into and out of all these lives, Dear Mr. You is really
about finding the beauty, the humor -- and the sorrows -- in our
lives and the lives of others, and being glad and grateful for all
of it. So here is my letter: Dear Ms. Parker, Thank you for this
dazzling collection.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"
I am a memoir connoisseur. I teach the form. I read dozens upon
dozens of 'true' stories every year, and only two or three stand
out. Dear Mr. You stands out.-- "Chicago Tribune"
Mary-Louise Parker is a smart, smart woman who GETS LIFE. In Dear
Mr. You, Parker puts together all the letters she's written to the
men in her life. Her grandfather, a priest, boyfriends. It's all
there. It's dynamite.-- "HelloGiggles"
Parker dives into complex topics that aren't always easy to put to
paper with humor and rich, full writing. She draws the readers in
and will have them hooked until the final page. Dear Mr. You is a
thrilling and brilliant début by an accomplished actor.-- "The
Daily Iowan"
Parker's first book is unconventional, spirited, refreshingly
honest, and painfully funny....Each letter proves Parker as a
writer capable of inspiring depth and self-reflection. With Dear
Mr. You, this accomplished actress can confidently add slash writer
to her bio -- and her fans should consider that addendum just as
confidently.-- "Bustle"
Yes, that Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds, Proof). Her debut memoir is
couched as a series of letters--funny, heartbreaking, steamy,
wise--to men who have touched her life: friends, family, lovers and
total strangers....Parker doesn't name names or connect dots. What
she does is provide a series of strobe-lit glimpses into an
extraordinary life.-- "MORE"
"Mary-Louise Parker's Dear Mr. You is straight-up fantastic; a
gripping and deeply humane and often hilarious book. It catches
glimpses of life at all sorts of unexpected moments, electrifying
them with its sharp-eyed astonishment at how absurd and joyous
things can get. There's nothing cheaply-earned about its wonder;
nothing sugarcoated in its gratitude.It's all grit, all messy
particulars--full of surprise and full-throated in its
song."--Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams
"To have an artist accomplished in one genre triumph in
another--seemingly out of the blue--is an extraordinary event.
Mary-Louise Parker's Dear Mr. You is a pants-pissingly funny,
gut-wrenching meditation on her loving and tormented encounters
with the masculine. From grandfather to father to son to the wacky,
pre-Burning Man hippie with a loincloth who haunts her at a co-op
job to the lover who deserves the coda 'Sleep tight, little
monster.' Whether honoring the ash-covered firefighter she sees on
9/11 or shouting as a crazy person at her malignantly lost
cabdriver, Parker merges memoir with poetry in this haunting, sui
generis work. I drank it down in one gulp, then started back at
page one again. A magnificent, necessary surprise."--Mary Karr,
author of The Liars' Club and Lit
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