You're leaving when? adventures in downward mobility
"With signature "sharp wit" (NPR), Annabelle Gurwitch gives irreverent and empathetic voice to a generation hurtling into their next chapter with no safety net and proving that our no-frills new normal doesn't mean a deficit of humor. In these essays, Gurwitch embraces homesharing, welcoming a housi...
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Berkeley, California :
Counterpoint,
2021.
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| Edition: | First hardcover edition. |
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| 250 | |a First hardcover edition. | ||
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| 520 | |a "With signature "sharp wit" (NPR), Annabelle Gurwitch gives irreverent and empathetic voice to a generation hurtling into their next chapter with no safety net and proving that our no-frills new normal doesn't mean a deficit of humor. In these essays, Gurwitch embraces homesharing, welcoming a housing-insecure young couple and a bunny rabbit into her home. The mother of a college student in recovery who sheds the gender binary, she relearns to parent, one pronoun at a time. She wades into the dating pool with a reupholstered vagina and flunks the magic of tidying up. You're Leaving When? is for anybody who thought they had a semblance of security but wound up with a fragile economy and a blankie. "What do we do when we've already reinvented in midlife?" Gurwitch offers stories of resilience, adaptability, low-rent redemption, and the kindness of strangers. Even in a Zoom"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: I thought there'd be coasting -- Homeward bound -- Stuffed -- Silver nesting -- Red flags -- The ____ that changes everything -- If you lived with me you'd be home by now -- Spirited away -- They got the alias that we've been living under -- Lubepocalypse now! -- Dear girlfriends -- You're doing all the right things, everything is going to work out -- Free to be... they and them -- You're leaving when? -- In a muted zoom no one can hear you scream. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Mothers and daughters |v Humor. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Downward mobility (Social sciences) |v Humor. | |
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