This Might Be Too Personal: And Other Intimate Stories

A frisky, feminine, funny, and profoundly genuine essay collection on relationships, sex, motherhood, and finding yourself, by the editor of New York Magazine's Sex Diaries. Alyssa Shelasky has a lot to tell you. In this hilarious and intimate essay collection, Alyssa navigates life as a wild-hearted woman and her thrilling career as a sex, relationship, and celebrity writer in New York City. From double-booking an interview with Sarah Jessica Parker and an abortion appointment, then unsuccessfully quitting sex and men entirely to have a baby via an anonymous sperm donor; to hooking up with a hot musician while eight months pregnant and then finding her life partner but vowing to never get married, Alyssa's essays paint a deeply genuine, romantic, and uproarious portrait of a woman who craves both love and lust, and who refuses to settle or sacrifice her fierce inner-spirit, sometimes to her own regret and detriment. And she's not afraid to give you every single beautiful, messy, and emotional detail of her bleeding heart and busy bedroom. This Might Be Too Personal is like having (several) drinks with your best friend who has seen, heard, and done everything. Literally, everything. Told with refreshing candor and jolts of humor, comforting relatability, and irresistible energy, Alyssa?s book is the ultimate meditation on living an authentic life with big feelings, hard decisions, and the small victories and painful mistakes of motherhood, womanhood, and profound independence.

Author: Alyssa Shelasky

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Publication Date: May 17, 2022

Number of Pages: 256 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography

ISBN-10: 1250810884

ISBN-13: 9781250810885