Dear Mr. You

Mary -Louise Parker

• Publisher: Scribner
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781501107849
• eBook ISBN: 9781501107856
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

The bestselling, wonderfully unconventional, “warmly conspiratorial…seriously good” (The New York Times) literary memoir from the award-winning actress that has received fabulous and wide praise. “There is no one else quite like Mary-Louise Parker…Funny, heartbreaking and profound” (Elle).

An extraordinary literary work, Dear Mr. You renders the singular arc of a woman’s life through letters Mary-Louise Parker composes to the men, real and hypothetical, who have informed the person she is today. Beginning with the grandfather she never knew, the letters range from a missive to the beloved priest from her childhood to remembrances of former lovers to an homage to a firefighter she encountered to a heartfelt communication with the uncle of the infant daughter she adopted. Readers will be amazed by the depth and style of these letters, which reveal the complexity and power to be found in relationships both loving and fraught.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Dear Mr. You
• Dear Grandpa
• Dear Daddy
• Dear Yaqui Indian Boy
• Dear Risk Taker
• Dear Movement Teacher
• Dear Blue
• Dear Abraham
• Dear Popeye
• Dear Man Out of Time
• Dear Father Bob
• Dear Miss Girl
• Dear Big Feet
• Dear Former Boyfriend
• Dear Mentor
• Dear Young Leman
• Dear Poetry Man
• Dear Cerberus
• Dear Rafiki Yangu
• Dear Firefighter
• Dear NASA
• Dear Mr. Cabdriver
• Dear Orderly
• Dear Storyteller
• Dear Uncle
• Dear Lifeline
• Dear Neighbor
• Dear Gem
• Dear Little Owl
• Dear Doctor
• Dear Gorgeous
• Dear Emergency Contact
• Dear Future Man Who Loves My Daughter
• Dear Oyster Picker
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright