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Managing expectations, a memoir in essays, Minnie Driver

eng

autobiography

illustrations

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non fiction

Managing expectations

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Minnie Driver

a memoir in essays

In Managing Expectations, Minnie Driver's intimate, hilarious, and moving memoir-in-essays, the celebrated actor and captivating storyteller reflects on a surprising and remarkable life. Driver writes with disarming charm and candor about her upbringing between England and Barbados; her post-university travails and triumphs; shooting to fame in one of the most influential films of the 1990s and being nominated for an Academy Award; and finding the true light of her life, her son. She chronicles her unconventional career path, from being discovered at a rave in a muddy field in the English countryside to the time she gave up on acting to sell jeans in Uruguay, her journey as a single parent, and the heartbreaking loss of her mother. In Managing Expectations, Driver writes with razor-sharp humor and grace as she explores navigating the depths of failure, fighting for success, discovering the unmatched wonder and challenge of motherhood, and wading through immeasurable grief. Effortlessly charming, deeply funny, personal, and honest, Managing Expectations reminds us of the way life works out -- even when it doesn't

Surprise -- I'm going to Miami -- Butterfly hair -- Other people's drugs -- The sound of crickets -- A weekend away -- You're it -- Here, there, and everywhere -- Sea-based incursion -- Daffodils

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