Advance Praise for
You Know How I Feel About You

“It’s a joyful thing to read a book that not only tells the story of its own making, but offers a gorgeous, vulnerable exploration of motherhood and marriage. Caroline Langerman choreographs an intricate dance between the striving twenty-something New Yorker she once was, the suburban mother she becomes, and the writer she has always longed to be. Like the best books about the ups and downs of parenthood (think Operating Instructions or Waiting for Birdy), this is a celebration of the messy explosion that follows our happily-ever-after. It’s also an ode to all the selves we lose and collect along the way. Most of all You Know How I Feel About You is a beautiful, frank, funny catalogue of life, keeping us company on our own rocky journeys toward the places we most want to go.”

— Nina de Gramont, New York Times bestselling author

“Caroline Langerman articulates the disorientation of early motherhood with magnificently acute emotional honesty. This is the book women will pass around at playgroups, pressing it into one another's hands and saying, 'She gets it.'”

— Mary Laura Philpott, author of I Miss You When I Blink and Bomb Shelter: Love Time, and Other Explosives

“Caroline Langerman has penned a love letter to marriage, motherhood, and that ever-tricky part of being an adult: building community at every age and stage. Langerman’s writing feels like a whispered secret from a best friend that makes you lean in and ask: You've felt that way too? Vulnerable, hilarious, and wholly relatable, You Know How I Feel About You is a standout debut from a unique, unforgettable voice that astutely observes what it means to be a woman today.”

— Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of Summer State of Mind

“Every so often, a writer with x-ray vision looks closely at family life and gives us a more detailed map of that dicey, emotional terrain than we’ve had before. Caroline Langerman is just such a surveyor. She laces hard, specific, resonant truths inside beautiful sentences, my favorite kind of writing.”

— Kelly Corrigan, New York Times bestselling author

“This essay did what my favorite prose does: it made me want to speed up and slow down at the same time. The narrative was compelling in a way that spurred me on—I wanted to find out what happened to this mother and child, how the relationship changed or didn’t over time—but I also wanted to read carefully and savor this writer’s craft. This essay will stay with me, thanks to its combination of powerful storytelling and beautiful language.”

— Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful‍ on "The Difficult Child"
(ft. in You Know How I Feel About You)