Girl Walks into a Bar . . .

The former SNL star recounts the adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mom when she least expected it—at the age of forty-four. Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 knows Rachel Dratch. She was hilarious! So what happened to her? After a misbegotten part as Jenna on the pilot of 30 Rock Dratch was only getting offered roles as “Lesbians. Secretaries. Sometimes secretaries who are lesbians.” Her career as a female comedian at a low point she suddenly had time for yoga dog-sitting learning Spanish—and dating. Dratch reveals the joys and terrors of putting herself out there in a quest to find love and then becoming a mother in an undreamed-of way. With riotous humor she recounts breaking the news to her bewildered parents the awe of her single friends and romance and coparenting with her baby-daddy John. Filled with great behind-the-scenes anecdotes from Dratch’s time on SNL Girl Walks into a Bar . . . is a funny book with a refreshing version of the happily-ever-after story full of sensitivity candor and plenty of comic relief as only Rachel Dratch can tell it.