Fifty things that aren't my fault essays from the grown-up years
"From the creator of the iconic 'Cathy' comic strip comes her first collection of funny, wise, poignant, and incredibly honest essays about being a woman in what she lovingly calls 'the panini generation.' As the creator of 'Cathy' Cathy Guisewite found her way int...
| Main Author: | Guisewite, Cathy (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
G.P. Putnam's Sons,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Fifty things that aren't my fault
- Why there's a lifeless body in dressing room number two
- Driving lessons
- In loving memory of the legs l used to hate
- The attack mom
- The day I outgrew all my shoes
- I would wash my hands of this if only I could
- Caregiver standoff at the ice cream parlor
- Cords
- At least I didn't eat a donut
- The build-a-boob workshop
- Infidelity
- Nobody wants to hear about your nice clean closet
- No comment
- Helicopter daughter
- Diary of a bubble wrap scrap
- I'm flunking retirement
- This is your brain on sweet potato chips
- Don't tell a woman to just wear jeans
- The organizer
- Love stories
- The day I washed my face with bath soap
- It took a village
- The itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny torture chamber
- The day I divorced my purse
- Stop trying to upgrade your mother
- Ode to eyeliner
- What kind of friend has no Wi-Fi in the powder room?
- In defense of my 2,000th trip to the mall
- My meaningless midlife six-minute fling
- Four kindergarten moms and a bottle of Pinot Grigio
- Joyfully preparing for the celebration of death
- Left at the altar
- Seduction 101
- The last champions of photo album guilt
- Prince Charming
- Unexpired love
- Ate o'clock
- Mother's Day text message
- Novocaine in the waiting room
- Cool whipped
- Never, ever do what I say
- Love is in the air
- Barbie mom
- Meditations on a sweat sock
- Mother's soup
- Superman versus the meatloaf
- My cup would runneth over except it was full of M&M's and now they're all gone.