Bossypants

In Bossypants, Tina Fey turns her comic eye on her own life, from an awkward childhood in suburban Pennsylvania through improv stages in Chicago to the writers' room of Saturday Night Live and the creation of 30 Rock. Along the way she recounts her apprenticeship at Second City, her rise to become SNL's first female head writer, her uncanny turn impersonating Sarah Palin, and the daily absurdities of running a television show while raising a young daughter.

Written in Fey's signature deadpan, the book mixes memoir with sharp, funny commentary on women in comedy, the double standards of show business, beauty and body image, and the impossible math of working motherhood. Photographs, lists, and mock scripts punctuate the essays, and Fey is as willing to mock herself as anyone around her.

A number-one bestseller that helped define the modern comic memoir, Bossypants is a quick, quotable, and genuinely funny book about ambition, awkwardness, and finding your voice — and holding onto it once you have.