Summary of Casey Wilson's The Wreckage of My Presence

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Get the Summary of Casey Wilson's The Wreckage of My Presence in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Casey Wilson has a lot on her mind and she isn’t afraid to share. In this dazzling collection, each essay skillfully constructed and brimming with emotion, she shares her thoughts on the joys and vagaries of modern-day womanhood and motherhood, introduces the not-quite-typical family that made her who she is, and persuasively argues that lowbrow pop culture is the perfect lens through which to examine human nature.

Whether she’s extolling the virtues of eating in bed, processing the humiliation over her father’s late in life perm, mourning her mother's passing, or revealing her patented method for keeping the mystery alive in a marriage, Casey is witty, candid, and full of poignant and funny surprises. Humorous dives into her obsessions and areas of personal expertise—self-help, nice guys, cool girls (not her) and how to receive visitors in the bath—are matched by touching meditations on female friendship, anger, grief, motherhood, and identity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638155911

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Summary of Casey Wilson’s The Wreckage of My Presence

Contents

Overview

Bed and Bath People

Part-Time Jobs

Men in Her Life

Trying to Be Cool

Saber the Dog

Mourning and Real Housewives

Cults of LA

Accessing Anger

Cooking and Healing

Camping and Road Trips

Awkward Barbecue

Theater at Its Finest

Her Own Happy Ending

David

Funeral Arrangements

Thanksgiving Doesn’t Do

Raising Kids

Trusting Others

Mother’s Day

Faux Pas

Addictions

Author’s Style

Author’s Perspective

Overview

Casey Wilson is an actress, comedian, mother, and above all, lifetime fan of The Real Housewives of Orange County.

Wilson’s book, The Wreckage of My Presence (2021), is her unflinching thoughts and feelings about a smattering of subjects, from cults and spin classes (which aren’t all that different) to the reality of spiritual healers in Hollywood. But the book also dives into much deeper and intimate issues, like Wilson’s never-ending struggles with her weight as an actress, the pressures with raising children, and most prominently, the death of her mother.

Wilson hopes that, if nothing