We've Decided to Go in a Different Direction
Essays
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Publisher Description
A “funny, relatable, honest” (Mindy Kaling, actress and New York Times bestselling author) essay collection about navigating a career change in Hollywood, rediscovering your identity, and overcoming the relatable messiness that ensues from unforeseen circumstances.
Tess Shanchez, wife of well-known actor Max Greenfield, the mother of two, and former Hollywood casting director, lived a life that felt like a hit sitcom—until an unexpected career loss changed everything. Now, in this “truly funny and heartfelt read” (Judd Apatow, director and New York Times bestselling author), Sanchez examines the aftermath of a major shift that forever changed the course of her life, and how losing her Hollywood career led to a journey of resilience, reinvention, and rediscovering her identity.
“We’ve decided to go in a different direction” was a phrase Sanchez rattled off to countless agents, actors, producers, and many more. But in the fall of 2020, the tables turned and she was on the receiving end of that phrase when she lost the long-held job she adored. She quickly discovered how much that career defined her identity, from her personal relationships to her own perception of herself. In the midst of facing this upheaval, her father was diagnosed with a devastating illness and suddenly, Sanchez had to learn what it means to parent her parents.
Moving, witty, and fun, We’ve Decided to Go in a Different Direction offers both welcome comedy and empowering strength in a relatable and inspiring story about overcoming life’s challenges.
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Former casting director Sanchez debuts with a funny and poignant memoir-in-essays about the highs and lows of her Hollywood career. After spending more than a decade as executive vice president of casting at Fox and having worked her way up from a temp desk at Warner Bros., Sanchez had the rug pulled out from under her in 2020 when the network declined to renew her contract. Reeling from the unexpected blow, she turned to her husband, New Girl actor Max Greenfield, for support and set out to learn who she was apart from her career. In the midst of that grueling process, she dealt with news that her father had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. While chronicling those developments, Sanchez flashes back to the early days of her relationship with Greenfield, including their temporary breakup before he entered rehab for drug and alcohol abuse. Sanchez's bluntness amuses ("Sorry. It's been nearly four years since that fateful Zoom call, and I'm still running hot," she quips after recounting her layoff from Fox), and she manages to make her specific crises feel universal. This raw reflection resonates far beyond the confines of Tinseltown.
