Why I'm Like This

Cynthia Kaplan takes us on a hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking journey through her unique, uncensored worldher bungled romantic encounters and unsung theatrical experiences, her gadget-obsessed father, her pill-popping therapist, and her eccentric grandmothers, her fearless husband, whom she engages in an ongoing battle over which of them is the most popular person in their apartment, and, of course, her vengeful, power-hungry one-year-old son.Kaplan's voice is a lot like the one in our headsthe one that most of us are only willing to listen to late at night . . . maybe while locked in a closet. What a relief it is that someone finally admits that she is afraid of nearly everything, that she is jealous even of people whose lives are on the verge of collapse, and that she has, at times, tried to pass for a gentile.