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The Summer of Oprah: Someone Will Be with You Shortly
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Today’s book is yet another officially Oprah-affiliated title. Lisa Kogan, a columnist for O, the Oprah magazine, delivers humourous tales about family life and balancing work and family, motherhood, politics, and more in her essay collection Someone Will Be with You Shortly. She delivers a great mix of been-there-done-that humour with jaw-droppingly personal revelations.
Kogan mixes the silly with the serious and effortlessly changes lanes without coming across as whiny or self-righteous. She weaves between discussing the difficulties of being a single mom, living with diabetes, and dealing with a child who is rapidly becoming a teenager. It’s easy to see why Oprah hired her to write a column. It’s easy to see why she has so many fans. She’s fresh, funny, irreverent, and breathtakingly honest about her (difficult but privileged) life and shows that being an easy, breezy, modern every woman is really fucking hard.
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