Dear Mr. You

By: Mary -Louise Parker

Narrated by: Mary-Louise Parker

2017 Audie Award Finalist for Narration by the Author

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.

So many feels in this book

Mary Louise Parker takes you on a tour of how her life was shaped. She rivets you and often makes you feel like you are right beside her sitting on the porch as she regales you with stories of these men. She is the girlfriend I yearn for that shares secrets that you share without revealing names. You laugh just as easily as you cry with her, and at times you just want to give her a big hug. amazing read.

1k stars!!!!

heehawed. bawled. this was so good. love the format and reading. way to slay it Mary Louise Parker!!!!

just read it...

...or better yet, listen on audio. Its awesome! A review cannot do it justice. entertaining, respectful, deep and genuine,,,!

She should write more!

I loved this book!! It's nt just another celebrity book! Written in a very sophisticated way, and her narrating just made it perfect!
Omg Mary Louise parker is one of the last remaining respectable actresses in Hollywood. Somebody that's actually talented, educated and classy

I liked it

It's like a diary. steamy in some parts and I don't agree a man with a woman before marriage although the steamy should be part of a marriage. Enjoyed her capturing different times and folks in her life.