Don't Buy What I'm Selling: On Breaking Up with Advertising and Finally Learning to Love My Whole, Fat Self Nature fighting to feel at home

fighting to feel at home in her post-baby body and feeling pressure to be intimate with her adoring husband

Christopher Isherwood ingratiated himself with a wealthy uncle

this is a story where love is as deadly as it is irresistible

What would make a mother abandon her child

"—The New York Times

Don't Buy What I'm Selling: On Breaking Up with Advertising and Finally Learning to Love My Whole, Fat Self Nature fighting to feel at homePart memoir, part manifesto, this is the story of a woman determined to go deep inside a business she was raised to hate, so she could save the world and herself through advertising. What could possibly go wrong? As a high level advertising creative director for 14 years, Lu Chekowsky willed inanimate objects to life and made people want to buy stuff they didnt need. Her colleagues called her Mary Manifesto because she could whip up an emotional ad