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TITLE:
Where am I now? : true stories of girlhood and accidental fame / Mara Wilson.
Publication Date:
2016
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Books,
Physical Description:
259 p. : ill.
Summary:
The former child actor who played Nattie Hillard in Mrs. Doubtfire, Matilda Wormwood in Matilda, and Susan Walker in the 1994 remake of Miracle on 34th Street. Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and out of place: as the only kid on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boys, a Valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and a grown-up the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from what she learned about sex on the set of Melrose Place, to discovering in adolescence that she was no longer "cute" enough for Hollywood, these essays chart her journey from accidental fame to relative (but happy) obscurity. They also illuminate universal struggles, like navigating love and loss, and figuring out who you are and where you belong. Honest, insightful, and hilarious, Where Am I Now? introduces Mara Wilson as a brilliant new chronicler of the experience that is growing up young and female. Mara Wilson is a writer, playwright, actor, and storyteller. In May 2013, Wilson wrote an article for online magazine Cracked.com, offering her opinion of the delinquency of some former child stars. Her play Sheeple was produced in 2013 for the New York International Fringe Festival. She regularly appears at live storytelling and comedy shows.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780143128229