The Autobiography of a Fat Bride, by Laurie Notaro. Viillard, pub.
Laurie Notaro is hilarious. This is the second book she's authored that I have read, the first being The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club. Fat Bride deals with her foray into marriage. She has a sharp, biting wit with the ability to make the mundane side-splittingly funny.
Laurie relocated from Brooklyn, New York, to Phoenix, Arizona as a child. A quote:
"In hindsight, our neighbors were nice to us simply because they were afraid my Italian New Yorker father would, at any minute, start shaking down the block for protection money or insist on selling them fur coats in 118-degree weather that he said fell off a truck (though in Arizona, you'd say "fell offer this here waggin"). After all, they believed we must have been related to the Gambino crime family because our last names ended with the very same letter. Arizona was new territory to New York Italians, evidenced when, on our first day in our new desert home, the unafraid and impeccably tanned leader of the Welcome Wagon ladies brought over a pan of lasagna made of cottage cheese, Ragu, and Velveeta. My mother promptly responded by running out to the front yard, waving her arms and screaming, trying frantically to flag down the disappearing Mayflower moving truck as it turned the corner and was gone forever."
Both are great reads that will make you laugh out loud.
Thank you, Darr, for providing that first Laurie Notaro book. It was a great gift!
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