Little Miss Little Compton: A Memoir

Comedian and actress Arden Myrin delivers a hilarious and heartfelt memoir about navigating adulthood and her rise on the comedy scene despite an unconventional upbringing.

Arden Myrin is the product of not one, but two hasty decisions. Her paternal grandparents ran off and got married twenty-four hours after they met. Arden's parents did one better -- they married on a dare. Growing up in Arden's family, her dad ate nothing but sheet cake, while her mom was busy teaching a Cub Scout troop how to put on a Broadway musical. Oh, and she grew up in a small farm town called Little Compton, Rhode Island. Human population: 3,518. Cow population: 278. General Store: One. Stop Lights: Zero.

At nineteen, Arden packed her bags with stars in her eyes and landed at ImprovOlympic in Chicago, where for the first time in her life she felt like she finally made sense. After drinking in as much comedy experience (and Sea Breezes) as she could, Arden got her big break when she was cast on an NBC sitcom. She moved to Los Angeles, knowing no one, and quickly realized she had no clue how to be a fully-grown human adult on her own.

How do you date someone and not ruin it? How do you interact with people if you have a teeny bit of social anxiety? How do you stand up for yourself if you're a people pleaser? And most of all, how do you start to believe that you are enough?

From small town Rhode Island to accidentally kicking Courteney Cox in the face on a soundstage in Hollywood, Arden's hilarious, inspiring, and honest story shows readers how one totally unconventional upbringing might be the very thing one needs to thrive, all while showing up as your most outrageous, authentic self. Shout out to Little Compton Woot Woot


Author: Arden Myrin
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Published: 09/29/2020
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780762469574


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/01/2020 pg. 23

About the Author
Arden Myrin is an actress, writer, nationally headlining standup comedian, and the host of the popular iHeartRadio Bachelor podcast Will You Accept This Rose? She can currently be seen on the smash hit Insatiable as Regina Sinclair (named one of the top 10 most binged shows on Netflix) and has appeared on Chelsea Lately, Mad TV, Shameless, Inside Amy Schumer, Orange Is the New Black, The Howard Stern Show, Grey's Anatomy, Key & Peele, and RuPaul's Drag Race, among others. Arden is from Little Compton, Rhode Island, and currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband Dan and their kitties.