My Squirrel Days. This item is unavailable.My Squirrel Days

Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious, refreshing, and inspiring collection of essays &;teeming with energy and full of laugh-out-loud moments&; (Associated Press).

&;A pleasure. Ellie Kemper is the kind of stable, intelligent, funny, healthy woman that usually only exists in yogurt commercials. But she&;s real and she&;s all ours!&; &;Tina Fey

&;Ellie is a hilarious and talented writer, although we&;ll never know how much of this book the squirrel wrote.&;&;Mindy Kaling

Meet Ellie, the best-intentioned redhead next door. You&;ll laugh right alongside her as she shares tales of her childhood in St. Louis, whether directing and also starring in her family holiday pageant, washing her dad&;s car with a Brillo pad, failing to become friends with a plump squirrel in her backyard, eating her feelings while watching PG-13 movies, or becoming a &;sports monster&; who ends up warming the bench of her Division 1 field hockey team in college.

You&;ll learn how she found her comedic calling in the world of improv, became a wife, mother and New Yorker, and landed the role of a bridesmaid (while simultaneously being a bridesmaid) in Bridesmaids. You&;ll get to know and love the comic, upbeat, perpetually polite actress playing Erin Hannon on The Office, and the exuberant, pink-pants-wearing star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

If you&;ve ever been curious about what happens behind the scenes of your favorite shows, what it really takes to be a soul cycle &;warrior,&; how to recover if you accidentally fall on Doris Kearns Goodwin or tell Tina Fey on meeting her for the first time that she has &;great hair&;really strong and thick,&; this is your chance to find out. But it&;s also a laugh-out-loud primer on how to keep a positive outlook in a world gone mad and how not to give up on your dreams. Ellie &;dives fully into each role&;as actor, comedian, writer, and also wife and new mom&;with an electric dedication, by which one learns to reframe the picture, and if not exactly become a glass-half-full sort of person, at least become able to appreciate them&; (Vogue.com).

Ellie Kemper is the Emmy-nominated star of the Netflix original series, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. She portrayed Erin Hannon on NBC&;s The Office; costarred in Bridesmaids; and has also appeared in 21 Jump Street, Identity Thief, and Somewhere. Ellie voiced Katie in The Secret Life of Pets and is the voice of Crackle on Disney&;s Sofia the First. Her writing has appeared in GQ, Esquire, The New York Times, McSweeney&;s, and The Onion. Ellie currently lives in Manhattan with her husband and son, but is constantly trying to find a way to get back to St. Louis. My Squirrel Days is her first book.