Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Mindy Kaling has had many different lives. She was raised as an obedient child by immigrant professionals, was a shy chubster who was terrified of her own bike, played an Off-Broadway performer and playwright impersonating Ben Affleck, and was eventually an actress and comedy writer who would often start arguments with her friends and coworkers by saying, "Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I'll shut up about it?"

Perhaps you would like to know what Mindy considers to be the ideal level of fame (so famous you can never be found guilty of murder in a court of law), or what makes a great guy (someone who will fill your prescription in the middle of the night), or what makes a perfect amount of fame (someone who is aware of all elderly people in any room at any time and acts accordingly), or how to maintain a trim figure (you will not find that information in these pages). If so, for the most part, you've found the proper book!

In Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood, with several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls. Mindy Kaling is essentially the Girl Next Door—well, not quite everywhere in the continental United States, but certainly if you're from Sri Lanka or India.