Ian Frazier
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"A generous selection of Frazier's most sophisticated and uproarious feature stories"--
"Part muckraker, part adventurer and part raconteur, the author, in a humorous collection of stories, collects his best essays and reportage from the past 10 years that beholds, captures and occasionally reimagines the spirit of the American experience. By the author of Travels in Siberia."--
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2012
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Structured as a daybook of sorts, with the Cursing Mommy--beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and nine--trying (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between Phyllis Diller's and Sylvia Plath's: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses of red wine, who speaks...
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The author of Annie John, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother delves into her long-awaited new novel about a complicated modern family, featuring Mr. and Mrs. Sweet and their two children, Heracles and Persephone, who live in the Shirley Jackson house in Vermont. Kincaid discusses her novel with her old friend Ian Frazier (The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days).