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My planet finding humor in the oddest places

Roach takes a magnifying glass to everyday life, exposing moments of hilarity in the mundane and revealing amusing musings about marriage, automated customer service, and mazelike bargain stories.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Roach, Mary (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., [2013]
Subjects:	American wit and humor. United States > Social life and customs > Humor. Social life and customs > 21st century.
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Summary:	Roach takes a magnifying glass to everyday life, exposing moments of hilarity in the mundane and revealing amusing musings about marriage, automated customer service, and mazelike bargain stories.
Physical Description:	xi, 193 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:	9781621450719 (alk. paper) 1621450716 (alk. paper)
Author Notes:	Mary Roach was born and raised in Etna, New Hampshire. She has a BA degree in psychology from Wesleyan University. She spent a few years as a free-lance copy editor before she landed a job at the San Francisco Zoological Society turning out press releases. She then moved on to write humor pieces for such periodicals as The New York Times Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle and Sports Illustrated. Her article "How to Win at Germ Warfare" was a National Magazine Award Finalist, in 1995. In 1996, her article on earthquake-proof bamboo houses took the Engineering Journalism Award. She published several books such as Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003) and Packing for Mars (2010). Mary's title Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography)