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In this funny and relatable essay collection, Mindy Kaling navigates preschool admissions, attends a Chanel sale in sweats, hunts down her stolen car, confronts reading glasses at forty-six, and discovers that even when you’ve built the life you want, you still text three friends, “Is this...

Yes, Mindy Kaling is the genial Hollywood celebrity who posted twelve selfies from a single Oscar party, but that smile took work. In this hilariously honest essay, Mindy reflects on the social anxiety that she traces back to the slices of white cheese her parents served at her ninth birthday party. Little has changed in thirty years--least of all the fear of being judged forever. It’s probably best to just back away.

Like Kelly Kapoor on The Office, Mindy is engaged with her Indian heritage to the extent that it is fun and convenient. So apart from a tolerance for spicy foods and an appreciation for Ravi Shankar, Mindy isn’t all that Hindu. Her daughter’s Jewish godfather--TV and film’s B.J. Novak--prompts her to reconsider her religious beliefs and ask herself: How Indian do I want my daughter to be?

“How to Ruin a Weddingis the kind of book that makes you laugh so hard you snort in public, and then you have to pretend you were coughing. Lucy is my new favorite human, and I would absolutely hire her to ruin any wedding.” —Mindy Kaling When a professional wedding crasher storms the...

How exhilarating is a sale? For Mindy Kaling, exhilarating enough to sprint to Rodeo Drive the moment she hears Chanel is offering the impossible—a discount. Sporting a bandaged arm, a baseball cap, and unwashed hair, Mindy talks her way into one of fashion’s rarest shopping events, where...

Is it the right choice for Mindy Kaling, one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People,” to track down the person who stole her ugly car? It’s not only right—it’s kind of exciting. When someone drives off with her Cookie Monster–blue car, Mindy tracks it through South LA with...

There comes a moment in every woman’s life when she realizes the lighting isn’t getting worse—she is. Mindy Kaling has arrived. When restaurant menus, receipts, and Instagram captions become mysteriously unreadable, Mindy embarks on an eye exam that leaves her with reading glasses, dry...

Fashionable clothes and validation were great while they lasted. But what happens when acclaimed writer, actress, producer, and director Mindy Kaling can no longer fit into sample sizes? In this liberating essay, she learns that maybe there’s something more valuable. Being romantically dumped...

In this hilarious essay, navigating Los Angeles’s cutthroat private school admissions becomes an unexpectedly personal education for New York Times bestselling author Mindy Kaling, where the parents are interviewed, everyone pretends to be relaxed, and nobody is fooling anyone. As Mindy...

A fabulous vacation destination? A winter wonderland? That big fat lie is exposed once and for all in a bracing essay by Mindy Kaling. Mindy takes her family to Vail for a privileged experience she never had as a child. Instead of a wholesome family memory, it’s a slushy, expensive, and...

On their Martha’s Vineyard estate, the Carter family prepares to celebrate. But when the billionaire patriarch dies right before his seventieth birthday, the media is quick to question the future of the multi-industry conglomerate that makes the Carters living legends. Amid the succession crisis, his daughter, Kennedy, is questioning her father’s past.

Mindy Kaling viveu muitas vidas: a filha obediente de profissionais liberais imigrantes, uma gordinha tímida com medo de bicicleta, e, por fim, roteirista e atriz de comédias propensa a puxar briga com os amigos e colegas de trabalho usando a frase: "Posso dizer só mais uma coisa a respeito...

Best friends Miranda Montana, Germaine St. Germaine-Chang, and Sicily Bell were the darlings of Hollywood who rose from teen success to in-demand idols of screaming fans and paparazzi. They rode the momentum like there was no tomorrow. But nothing lasts forever. Now Miranda, the wild-child movie star, drifts from rehab to dead-end relationships as she tries for a comeback from a very public fall from grace. Germaine, the daughter of billionaire hotel moguls, has lost her purpose.

‘Where have you been all our lives, Mindy?’ Glamour Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: comedienne, actress, obedient child of immigrant professionals and, now, writer. With a blend of witty confessions and unscientific observations, Mindy writes about everything from being a timid young...

Remi Finch has spent the better part of her adult life avoiding family—especially her sisters. They just don’t click. Besides, her unconventional upbringing and major anxiety have convinced Remi that she can’t build a relationship with anyone. Period. When her parents plan a family reunion camping trip to celebrate their anniversary, Remi’s willing to reconnect, if only because she doesn’t have a choice. But then a dead body turns up at their campsite, and their sisterly bonding kicks into high gear.

Pakistani American Farah Naz Rishi’s first year of college was perfectly, thankfully, uneventful. After all, she was in college to learn and forge a path of self-sufficiency, especially after her last relationship fell apart—dashing her mother’s aspirations for an early marriage. What could Farah expect, anyway? For the ideal guy to just conveniently waltz into her life? Life isn’t a love story.

Raj and Rachel Ranjani have invited a small group of their ride or dies from college for a celebratory weekend in Napa Valley. On the agenda: three nights in the couple’s vineyard mansion, a lavish dinner at Napa’s hottest new restaurant, exclusive tastings, and the grand opening of the Ranjanis’ ultra-high-end winery. It’s a reunion of six friends who haven’t seen each other in years. What could go wrong?

Dunia Ahmed lives an ordinary life—or she definitely used to. Now she’s the subject of a true crime podcast. She’s been missing for over a year, and no one knows if she’s dead or alive. But her story has listeners obsessed, and people everywhere are sporting merch that demands “Find Dunia!” In the days before her disappearance, Dunia is a successful pharmacist living in New York. The daughter of Pakistani immigrants, she’s coping with a broken engagement and the death of her mother. But then something happens that really shakes up her world: someone tries to murder her.

Planning the perfect prom is one last “to do” on ultra-organized Charlotte Wu’s high school bucket list. So far, so good, if not for a decorating accident that sends Charlotte crash-landing off a ladder, face-first into her obnoxiously ripped archnemesis J. T. Renner. Worse? When Charlotte wakes up, she finds herself in an unfamiliar bed at thirty years old, with her bearded fiancé, Renner, by her side.

After a difficult five years, at age forty-three, Nina Morgan Clarke’s time has finally arrived. With an ex-husband relocated across the country, her father bouncing back after the loss of his beloved wife, and her daughter, Xandra, thriving at boarding school, Nina is stepping into her dream job as a trifecta: a first-generation, Black female head of the storied Royal-Hawkins School. To mark the moment, Nina and her best friend, Marisol, take a long-overdue girls’ trip to celebrate the second half of Nina’s life—which is shaping up to be the best part of her life.