I Love You And I'm Leaving You Anyway: A Memoir

by Tracy McMillan

Overview

Television writer Tracy McMillan’s comic literary road trip into the heart and soul of her relationship with her father—a convicted pimp, drug dealer, and felon—and what it has meant for her relationships with men. Like a cross between The Glass Castle and Hypocrite in a Poufy White Dress, I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyway is funny, inspiring, and truly unique.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062000194
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/13/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	356
File size:	581 KB

About the Author

Tracy McMillan is a film and television writer, most recently on AMC's Emmy Award-and Golden Globe-winning series Mad Men, and before that on Showtime's Emmy Award-winning series The United States of Tara, the ABC drama Life on Mars, and the NBC drama Journeyman. She lives in Los Angeles with her fourteen-year-old son.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

1 If You Love Me, Please Press "5" 1

2 I Love You, This Is Just How I Am 7

3 I Love You, but I'm Stuck in Here 22

4 I Love You, and I Can't Live Without You 42

5 I Love You, Now Meet Your New Mom 64

6 I Love You, but I've Got Work to Do 81

7 I Love You, but I'm Sick of Coming Here 100

8 I Love You, Even If You Already Have a Girlfriend 119

9 I Love You, but I Think I Can Do Better 137

10 I Love You, and I'm Leaving You Anyway 157

11 I Love You, Even Though I Just Told You to Go 182

12 I Love You, Which Is Why I'm Lying to You 204

13 I Love You, but I'm Ready to Start Dating 223

14 I Love You, So Obviously You Must Have Serious Problems 254

15 I Love You, but I Love Myself More 281

16 I Love You, So I Forgive You 302

17 I Love You, Totally and Completely 322

Editorial Reviews

McMillan acknowledges conventional wisdom in this oddly paced memoir: "any chick old enough to have acquired a Diet Coke habit has heard that your relationships with men will be based - one way or another - on the one you had with your father." The film and TV writer (The United States of Tara) believes that her failed marriages are a reflection of the connections, however imperfect, she has tried to forge with her father, a pimp, drug dealer, and convicted felon incarcerated most of her life. McMillan's relationship attempts dominate the discussion: there's Scott, her first boyfriend in high school, who already has a girlfriend. There's her third ex-husband, Paul, a Harvard grad from an affluent family, and "a lot like my dad. They both loved me and left me anyway. Then, once they were gone, they refused to let me go." Only when McMillan manages to accept her father for who he is does she get beyond her past and look to the future. But by the time she realizes that her young son, about whom she talks not nearly enough, is the true love of her life, the story comes to an abrupt end.
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