Please Excuse My Daughter

About this book

Look out for Julies new book The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters. From the author of Friendkeeping and Love at First Bark one womans hilarious bittersweet account of growing up in a family of career-shunning dependence-seeking women and her journey to a state of twenty-first-century self-reliance. Julie Klam was raised as the only daughter of a Jewish family in the exclusive WASP stronghold of Bedford New York. Her mother was sharp glamorous and funny but did not think that work was a womans responsibility. Her father was fully supportive not just of his wifes staying at home but also of her extravagant lifestyle. Her mothers offbeat parenting style-taking Julie out of school to go to lunch at Bloomingdales for example-made her feel well-cared-for (and well-dressed) but left her unprepared for graduating and entering the real world. She had been brought up to look pretty and wait for a rich man to sweep her off her feet. But what happened if he never showed up? When Julie gets married to a hardworking but not wealthy man-one who expects her to be part of a modern couple and contribute financially to the marriage-she realizes how ambivalent and ill-equipped she is for life. Once she gives birth to a daughter she knows she must grow up get to work and teach her child the self-reliance that she never learned. Delivered in an uproariously funny sweet self-effacing and utterly memorable voice Please Excuse My Daughter is a bighearted memoir from an irresistible new writer.