Laurie Notaro is turning 60, and she has a few things to say about it.
In I’ve Got a New Complaint, the bestselling humorist takes on aging, family, disastrous workplaces, chaotic travel, stubborn parents, old enemies, scam texts, questionable retirement plans, and a beloved dog who seems determined to destroy everything she owns.
Whether she’s staging an intervention for her aging parents, plotting a women-only retirement motel with friends, confronting a high school bully four decades later, navigating Europe with Rick Steves-level preparation, or imagining her own wildly inappropriate funeral, Laurie finds comedy in situations most people would rather forget.
Beneath the complaints is something surprisingly warm: growing older may bring aching joints, difficult people, and plenty of absurdity—but it also brings confidence, perspective, stronger boundaries, and the freedom to care a lot less about what everyone else thinks.
Read the Instaread summary of I’ve Got a New Complaint for Laurie Notaro’s hilarious take on getting older without necessarily getting wiser.
