My Squirrel Days [Hardcover] (RARE BOOKS)

Comedian and star ofThe OfficeandUnbreakable Kimmy SchmidtEllie Kemper delivers a hilarious, refreshing, and inspiring collection of essays teeming with energy and full of laugh-out-loud moments (Associated Press).

A pleasure. Ellie Kemper is the kind of stable, intelligent, funny, healthy woman that usually only exists in yogurt commercials. But shes real and shes all ours!Tina Fey

Ellie is a hilarious and talented writer, although well never know how much of this book the squirrel wrote.Mindy Kaling

Meet Ellie, the best-intentioned redhead next door. Youll laugh right alongside her as she shares tales of her childhood in St. Louis, whether directing and also starring in her family holiday pageant, washing her dads car with a Brillo pad, failing to become friends with a plump squirrel in her backyard, eating her feelings while watching PG-13 movies, or becoming a sports monster who ends up warming the bench of her Division 1 field hockey team in college.

Youll learn how she found her comedic calling in the world of improv, became a wife, mother and New Yorker, and landed the role of a bridesmaid (while simultaneously being a bridesmaid) inBridesmaids.Youll get to know and love the comic, upbeat, perpetually polite actress playing Erin Hannon onThe Office, and the exuberant, pink-pants-wearing star ofUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

If youve ever been curious about what happens behind the scenes of your favorite shows, what it really takes to be a soul cycle warrior, how to recover if you accidentally fall on Doris Kearns Usedwin or tell Tina Fey on meeting her for the first time that she has great hairreally strong and thick, this is your chance to find out. But its also a laugh-out-loud primer on how to keep a positive outlook in a world gone mad and how not to give up on your dreams. Ellie dives fully into each roleas actor, comedian, writer, and also wife and New momwith an electric dedication, by which one learns to reframe the picture, and if not exactlybecomea glass-half-full sort of person, at least become able to appreciate them (Vogue.com).