I’ll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain

In these animated essays, Mother Mother podcaster Farris (Casserole Crazy) reflects on living with ADHD. “How We Got Here” recounts how Farris—struggling to juggle the responsibilities of motherhood and her job as a social media manager while keeping up with everyday chores—saw her troubles reflected in an article about women with ADHD, leading her to get diagnosed with the condition at age 35. The humorous entries offer insight into what it’s like to have ADHD. For instance, “Re: New Thread” presents increasingly harried emails from Farris to a client as a two-hour copywriting gig turns into a two-day project that comes to include retooling the client’s website, illustrating how people with ADHD “often underestimate how long it will take to get something done” and get distracted by unrelated tasks. Farris is frank about the challenges of the condition (she reports that fights with her husband often start because her poor impulse control leads her to make significant purchases the couple can’t afford), but the essays are mostly lighthearted and comical, as when she details her sensory processing issues around rubbing fabric, writing that “the mere experience of watching someone rub their hand on their jeans will send me running into the other room.” The result is a buoyant exploration of neurodivergence. Agent: Michael Bourret, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. (Feb.)