Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo? - And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Ask

Zusatztext "I want Jancee Dunn to make me a pie. Actually! I want to sit around and listen to her entire family argue about what type of pie. Such is the extreme charm of her world. No matter the subject! Dunn's gimlet eye for all of life’s minor infractions and daily quirks is superbly addictive." —Sloane Crosley! author of I Was Told There'd be Cake “[Jancee Dunn’s] wonder! bemusement! befuddlement! and frank delight at growing into adulthood are highly entertaining… Readers who enjoy humorous memoirs infused with a healthy dose of pop culture are sure to love this book! which has the potential to be an entertaining and provocative book club choice.” — Library Journal   “Genial [and] affectionately mocking…Dunn's travails will be instantly recognizable to readers in their late 30s and 40s…. Her parents are a bottomless well of comedy [and] her circle of friends is equally familiar.”— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Jancee Dunn is the author of the novel Don’t You Forget About Me and the memoir But Enough About Me. A former writer at Rolling Stone, she was a correspondent for Good Morning America and an MTV veejay. She has written for The New York Times, GQ, Vogue, O: The Oprah Magazine, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, writer Tom Vanderbilt. Klappentext Despite her forty years and a successful career as a rock journalist! Jancee Dunn still feels like a teenager! especially around her parents and sisters. Looking around! Dunn realizes that she's not alone in this regression: Her friends! all with successful jobs! marriages! and families of their own! still feel like kids around their moms and dads! too. That gets Dunn to thinking: Do we ever really grow up? Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo? explores this phenomenon-through both Dunn's coming to grips with getting older and her folks' attempts to turn back the clock. In a series of hilarious and heartwarming essays! Dunn conspires with her sisters to finagle their way into the old family homestead! dissects the whys and wherefores of her parents' obsession with newspaper clippings! confronts the seamy side of the JC Penney catalogs she paged through as a kid! and accompanies her sixtysomething mother to a New Jersey tattoo parlor! where Mom is giddy to get a raven inked onto her wrist. And Dunn does it all with humor and insight. Triple-Sausage Stuffing with Sausage Sauce Recently my younger sister Heather decided to paint her fireplace white. This would be minor news in most families, but not in ours. All day the phone calls flew back and forth. My mother suggested cream instead, which she said was softer. My retiree father phoned from the golf course to warn that painting the fireplace would decrease the property value. I debated the pitfalls of the “wrong” shade of white. My other sister, Dinah, requested a photo of the fireplace before weighing in. My family does everything by committee, so that the most trivial dilemma is debated with the zeal of Talmudic scholars. (As Dinah puts it, “No one in our family ever says, ‘I don’t know,’ even when they know absolutely nothing about the subject.”) We all live within an hour’s drive of one another—I’m in Brooklyn, Dinah and my folks live in our home state of New Jersey, and Heather is in a small town in upstate New York—but we can never seem to save these conversations for get-togethers. They require an immediate blizzard of phone calls, so we all signed up for a “friends and family” plan to do it on the cheap. Dinah, a mild-mannered editor and mother of two, is the most agreeable of our group, and thus most apt to get flattened by the familial steamroller. When she wanted to redecorate her TV room last year, she made the tactical blunder of enthusiastically sharing the plan with Heather and my mother. After w...

Product details

• Authors: Jancee Dunn
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2009
• EAN: 9780345501929
• ISBN: 978-0-345-50192-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 202 mm x 12 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries