“[Kogan’s] wry observations of everyday life will hearten you on your worst days, validate you on your best, and make you laugh any day at all.” — Martha Beck, author of
Expecting Adam
and
Finding Your Own North Star
“
Someone Will Be with You Shortly
is a delectable blend of wit, whimsy, pith, and poignancy. If David Sedaris were a girl... this is the book he’d write.” — Evan Handler, author of
It's Only Temporary
is a collection of the hilarious and poignant essays from beloved
O Magazine
columnist Lisa Kogan. Writing in the vein of Nora Ephron, Kogan has been called "the Erma Bombeck of our generation" (Kelly Corrigan, author of
The Middle Place
Lift
). In
, she brings her trademark humor to such real-life quandaries as single motherhood, aging, and sex.