Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0593156749 ISBN13: 9780593156742 Release Date: June 2021 Publisher: Ballantine Books Length: 304 Pages Weight: 0.92 lbs. Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.4" An honest, witty, and insightful memoir about what happens when your coming-of-age comes later than expected "Thanks for Waiting is the loving, wise, cuttingly funny older sister we all need in book form."--Tara Schuster, author of Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies Doree Shafrir spent much of her twenties and thirties feeling out of sync with her peers. She was an intern at twenty-nine and met her husband on Tinder in her late thirties, after many of her friends had already gotten married, started families, and entered couples' counseling. After a long fertility struggle, she became a first-time mom at forty-one, joining Mommy & Me classes where most of the other moms were at least ten years younger. And while she was one of Gawker's early hires and one of the first edito