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In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Live star recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mother when she least expected it-at the age of forty-four.
Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 knows Rachel Dratch. She was hilarious! So what happened to her? After a misbegotten part as Jenna on the pilot of 30 Rock, Dratch was only getting offered roles as "Lesbians. Secretaries. Sometimes secretaries who are lesbians."
Her career at a low point, Dratch suddenly had time for yoga, dog- sitting, learning Spanish-and dating. After all, what did a forty- something single woman living in New York have to lose? Resigned to childlessness but still hoping for romance, Dratch was out for drinks with a friend when she met John.
Handsome and funny, after only six months of dating long-distance, he became the inadvertent father of her wholly unplanned, undreamed-of child, and moved to New York to be a dad. With riotous humor, Dratch recounts breaking the news to her bewildered parents, the awe of her single friends, and the awkwardness of a baby-care class where the instructor kept tossing out the f-word.
Filled with great behind-the-scenes anecdotes from Dratch's time on SNL, Girl Walks into a Bar... is a refreshing version of the "happily ever after" story that proves female comics-like bestsellers Tina Fey and Chelsea Handler-are truly having their moment.
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"Rachel Dratch has written a memoir that is funny, honest and optimistic. It's like spending a delightful evening with Rachel, but in a format that allows you put her in your purse and enjoy her on the bus. (Rachel, I think Lynda Carter should play you in the movie and you should play your son.)"
— Tina Fey
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“Rachel Dratch has written a memoir that is funny, honest and optimistic.”
— Tina Fey -
“This is one of those books where a woman tells of her struggles with life and love. But here’s the caveat: the struggles are hilarious and the woman is Rachel Dratch.”
— Sarah Silverman -
“A hilarious look at how unpredictable and beautiful life can be. Like Dratch, Girl Walks into a Bar…is honest, surprising, and always funny.”
— Amy Poehler -
“Dratch leaves some of her personal story opened-ended, which gives the book some lovely honesty. Unlike the memoirs that pretend there’s a real beginning, middle, and end, Dratch acknowledges that there’s more story to come.”
— Boston Globe -
“[Girl Walks into a Bar…] is definitely funny, but it is [Dratch’s] courage to speak openly about her struggle with dating, romance, and…motherhood that makes this work as unconventional as her path to both television stardom and maternity.”
— Huffington Post -
“In this very funny, thoroughly winning autobiography, Dratch riffs on television comedy, dog-sitting, blind dates, pregnancy, and breaking the baby news to those who know you best. A surefire hit for SNL aficionados and other people who like to laugh.”
— Barnes & Noble editorial review -
A hilarious look at how unpredictable and beautiful life can be. Like Dratch, Girl Walks into a Bar... is honest, surprising and always funny.
— Amy Poehler -
This is one of those books where a woman tells of her struggles with life and love. But here's the caveat: the struggles are hilarious and the woman is Rachel Dratch.
— Sarah Silverman
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New York Times bestseller
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