| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xi, 257 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Summary |
A selection of autobiographical essays, stories, and anecdotes provides a look at the pitfalls and pains of trying to live a grown-up life, contemplating such topics as children, home improvement, religion, and cosmetic saleswomen. |
| Contents |
It's Not You, It's Me 3 -- Super Idiot Girl: The Sad Life and Lonely Times of Princess Enabler 12 -- You Never Call Me 16 -- The Good Guy 22 -- Dog Girl Bites Back 28 -- The Fat Bride Is Not a Happy Magic Marker 34 -- Hair of the Dog 40 -- Dreading the Wedding 44 -- Naked with a Stranger 48 -- The Suck of Bridal G-Force 53 -- Don't Drink the Kool-Aid 56 -- Dead Bride Walking 60 -- "If You Get Divorced Within a Year, You Owe Your Father $35.78 a Dinner Times Two Hundred": Words of Wisdom on My Wedding Day 63 -- It Takes Guts 74 -- Grin and Bare It 78 -- I Think at Night It Flies 82 -- Sweet Ride 86 -- Marathon Man 90 -- My Poor Sister 94 -- Following Instructions 97 -- The M&M, the Bee, and the Man Baby 101 -- Burning the Bra 104 -- The Lonely, Brown House 108 -- Erica's Moving Adventure 111 -- The Squatter 114 -- A Pound of Flesh 118 -- Home Sweat Home 123 -- Spooky Little Girl Like You 127 -- The Little King 131 -- What's on That Dog's Butt? 135 -- Red Mice 139 -- The Hands of Death 143 -- The Slattern's Blue Panties 147 -- White Noise, White Soap, and Man Desire: Marriage Advice from Two Mean Girls 151 -- As Time Goes By 155 -- Enough with the Love: Aberrant Tales of an Absolutely and Completely Normal Family (as Told to My Therapist) 160 -- Jingle Hell 164 -- The Dead Zone 170 -- Peace, You Stupid Asshole 174 -- My Mother, My Self, My God 178 -- It Only Says That on the Box 185 -- The Craft Toothbrush 194 -- The Littlest Operative 198 -- You Make Me Sick 202 -- Big Black Bastard 206 -- Boys and Girlas 211 -- Pissing Off the Pee Taker 215 -- What Drugs Can Do to a Family 219 -- You Have Already Been Preapproved for a Decline 222 -- Tiger Woods Doesn't Know Where I Live 226 -- I Think Someone Forgot About My Needs 232 -- Queen Bee 235 -- Thirty-fffff 239 -- Walk All Over You 243. |
| Subject |
Notaro, Laurie.
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Humorists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Married women -- Humor.
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| ISBN |
037576092X (acid-free paper) |
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9780375760921 (acid-free paper) : $15.00 |
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