A friend recommended she make a "beat sheet" to help her find "where the pacing felt flabby and where I needed to put in more plot elements." This worked well for Startup, less well here-though Shafrir may be lucky that she avoided a tragedy or excess of trauma that might jazz up her story. She and her husband now co-host a podcast called Matt and Doree's Eggcellent Adventure, which they launched in 2016 “a few weeks before my first embryo transfer.” Shafrir's debut novel, Startup (2017), was a fun read, and this book includes a description of her writing process for the novel. Later, Shafrir chronicles how she met a nice stand-up comic, got married, and confronted infertility. In her 20s and 30s, she had a series of long- and short-term relationships, which she narrates with feeling and candor. Before she turned 40, she was a published novelist and a successful podcaster ( Forever 35). After college and graduate school, she worked as a journalist at Gawker, the New York Observer, BuzzFeed, and Rolling Stone.
To many readers, this supposed milestone-missing will not seem to be such a big deal, especially considering Shafrir’s many career successes before getting married. “I got married at thirty-eight, had my first kid at forty-one, and undoubtedly will be renting in the very overpriced city of Los Angeles until the end of time,” she writes. As the subtitle notes, the author considers herself a late bloomer. However, after motoring pleasantly along through the early chapters, it becomes apparent that it just wasn't very attention-getting. Reading through the first part of Shafrir’s memoir, it seems like she may have buried the lede. A former journalist and current podcaster narrates a life lived slightly behind the curve.
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