"[Kogan's] wry observations of everyday life will hearten you on your worst days, validate you on your best, and make you laugh any day at all." - Martha Beck, author of Expecting Adam and Finding Your Own North Star " Someone Will Be with You Shortly is a delectable blend of wit, whimsy, pith, and poignancy. If David Sedaris were a girl... this is the book he'd write." - Evan Handler, author of It's Only Temporary Someone Will Be with You Shortly is a collection of the hilarious and poignant essays from beloved O Magazine columnist Lisa Kogan. Writing in the vein of Nora Ephron, Kogan has been called and "the Erma Bombeck of our generation and " (Kelly Corrigan, author of The Middle Place and Lift ). In Someone Will Be with You Shortly , she brings her trademark humor to such real-life quandaries as single motherhood, aging, and sex.