<b>An honest, witty, and insightful memoir about what happens when your coming-of-age comes later than expected</b><br><br><b>“<i>Thanks for Waiting</i> is the loving, wise, cuttingly funny older sister we all need in book form.”—Tara Schuster, author of <i>Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies</i></b><br><br>Doree Shafrir spent much of her twenties and thirties feeling out of sync with her peers. She was an intern at twenty-nine and met her husband on Tinder in her late thirties, after many of her friends had already gotten married, started families, and entered couples’ counseling. After a long fertility struggle, she became a first-time mom at forty-one, joining Mommy & Me classes where most of the other moms were at least ten years younger. And while she was one of <i>Gawker</i>’s early hires and one of the first editors at <i>BuzzFeed</i>, she didn’t find professional fulfillment until she co-launched the successful self-care podcast <i>