Excuse Me While I Disappear, Laurie Notaro
Excuse Me While I Disappear, Laurie Notaro
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Excuse Me While I Disappear
Tales of Midlife Mayhem

Author: Laurie Notaro

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2022

Synopsis

A laugh-out-loud spin on the realities, perks, opportunities, and inevitable courses of midlife.Laurie Notaro has proved everyone wrong: she didn’t end up in rehab, prison, or cremated at a tender age. She just went gray. At past fifty, every hair’s root is a symbol of knowledge (she knows how to use a landline), experience (she rode in a car with no seat belts), and superpowers (a gray-haired lady can get away with anything).Though navigating midlife is initially upsetting—the cracking noises coming from her new old body, receiving regular junk mail from mortuaries—Laurie accepts it. And then some. With unintentional abandon, she shoplifts a bag of russet potatoes. Heckles a rude driver from her beat-up Prius. And engages in epic trolling on Nextdoor.com. That, says Laurie, is the brilliance of growing older. With each passing day, you lose an equivalent amount of fear.And the #1 New York Times bestselling author has never been so fearlessly funny as she is in this empowering, candid, and enlightening memoir about living life on the other side of fifty.

About Laurie Notaro

Laurie Notaro was a reporter and a daily columnist at the metro daily the Arizona Republic before publishing twelve books of fiction and nonfiction with Random House and Simon & Schuster, several of which have been New York Times bestsellers. Her work covers the genres of humor, women's fiction, historical fiction, and literary fiction. She was a finalist for the Thurber Prize, and has been awarded the Hearst Award, the Golden Circle Award, and several awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Reviews

Goodreads review by jv on May 31, 2023

I turn to Notaro when I feel slightly out of sync. I have the need to know that there other women in their fifties that simply cannot accept the fact that they aren't twenty-seven years old anymore. And, oh look, someone else has a list of words she cannot say during meetings. I really thought I was......more

Goodreads review by Richard on October 11, 2022

Have you ever just written a review that missed the mark? That was my experience here with Laurie Notaro's latest effort "Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem," a journey through Notaro's life as she passes fifty and learns that "with each passing day, you lose an equivalent amount o......more

Goodreads review by Mary on October 02, 2022

I am an original idiot girl and am of a certain age and persuasion as Laurie and her stories could not have rang more true. I love to laugh until I pee (lets face it, doesn't take much these days) I felt so seen in her represenation of this life after 50. I have read everything by her and honestly h......more

Goodreads review by Samantha on October 02, 2022

Funny as f*** The author has taken many of the horrifying things that MAW go through and magically made them sound hilarious and even fun at times. Just a few more silver strands, and maybe I too can score free potatoes. Hearing-Loss Question Husband is a character I feel many women of a certain age......more

Goodreads review by Bethany on October 03, 2022

I absolutely love Laurie Notaro and her ability to write so honestly while poking fun at herself and others around her. While I am not a MAW, I am about to turn 40 and now have a guide book of what to expect as I get older. Laurie Notaro makes going gray, menopause, and settling into middle age ente......more

Quotes

“Narrator Hillary Huber’s winsome performance grounds the author’s raucous humor and candid takes on the life of a 50-something woman. Huber intimately conveys Notaro’s observation that women somehow become invisible once they reach midlife.… These irreverent, sometimes profane, narratives strike a universal chord that will have listeners rolling with laughter at Notaro’s escapades, while also nodding their heads in agreement. This wickedly fun look at the adventures of aging should appeal to Notaro’s many fans and to readers who enjoy Jen Mann, Annabelle Gurwitch, and Jessi Klein.” —Library Journal“Witty and full of sarcastic energy, the author fearlessly tackles what it means to get old…Unplugged, refreshingly off the hook, and consistently entertaining.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Notaro’s fans who’ve aged right alongside her will feel like they’re on a call with a best friend.” —Publishers Weekly

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