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The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem - Hardcover - VERY GOOD

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Item specifics

Condition
Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
Brand
Unbranded
MPN
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ISBN
9780393249200

About this product

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393249204
ISBN-13
9780393249200
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27038296595

Product Key Features

Book Title
Madwoman and the Roomba : My Year of Domestic Mayhem
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Topic / Men, Women & Relationships, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Topic / Marriage & Family, Women's Studies, Life Stages / Mid-Life
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Humor
Author
Sandra Tsing Loh
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
14.8 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-052108
Reviews
The Madwoman and the Roomba is so funny it woke up my husband. He couldn't fall back to sleep with all the cackling, so he told me to read it aloud, and then we were both laughing. It's a year in the life of a very particular family: Mom wants to write The Angry Divorced Mother's Cookbook; her live-in boyfriend is more interested in the New York Times' barbecue recipes than in finding a full-time job; her brother strips to his underwear to give their father's eulogy...In other words, they're just like the rest of us: trying to get by without killing each other. Do you like laughing? Do you like reading? Buy this book!, How lucky we are. Sandra Tsing Loh's hilarious, snarky, insightful, and compassionate inner monologue could have stayed inside her head. But she wrote it all down, and that makes us the fortunate ones. I laughed from the beginning to the end. You will too. If you don't there's something seriously wrong with you., If humor will save us from these times--and if not, nothing will--Sandra Tsing Loh should be president. Or, better, queen. I devoured this perceptive, of-the-moment book about midlife love, work, motherhood, peer pressure, and more, with tears of hilarity running down my face. Sandra Tsing Loh could write an oven manual, and I'd laugh. I think she might be the funniest writer writing today., This wildly funny book proves that the more of life's indignities that are heaped on Sandra Tsing Loh, the more we will thrill to her brilliant wit and rock-solid resilience. I laughed about seventy times, welled up twice, and cried at the end. Spectacular.
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Ah, 55. Gateway to the golden years Professional summiting. Emotional maturity. Easy surfing toward the glassy blue waters of retirement. . . . Or maybe not? Middle age, for Sandra Tsing Loh, feels more like living a disorganized 25-year-old's life in an 85-year-old's malfunctioning body. With raucous wit and carefree candor, Loh recounts the struggles of leaning in, staying lean, and keeping her family well-fed and financially afloat--all those burdens of running a household that still, all-too-often, fall to women. Whether battling with a mouse in her kitchen, prematurely freaking out about her daughters' college applications, or overcoming the pitfalls of long-term partnership and the temptations of online goddess webinars, Loh somehow navigates the realities of what it means to be a middle-aged woman in the twenty-first century. By day's end, we just might need a box of chardonnay and a Roomba to clean up the mess., A comic exploration of a year in the life of an "imaginatively twisted and fearless" (Los Angeles Times) best-selling author., Ah, 55. Gateway to the golden years! Professional summiting. Emotional maturity. Easy surfing toward the glassy blue waters of retirement...Or maybe not? Middle age, for Sandra Tsing Loh, feels more like living a disorganized 25-year-old's life in an 85-year-old's malfunctioning body. With raucous wit and carefree candor, Loh recounts the struggles of leaning in, staying lean, and keeping her family well-fed and financially afloat--all those burdens of running a household that still, all-too-often, fall to women. The Madwoman and the Roomba chronicles a roller coaster year for Loh, her partner, and her two teenage daughters in their ramshackle quasi-Craftsman, with a front lawn that's more like a rectangle of compacted dirt and mice that greet her as she makes her morning coffee. Her daughters are spending more time online than off; her partner has become a Hindu, bringing in a household of monks; and she and her girlfriends are wondering over Groupon "well" drinks how they got here. Whether prematurely freaking out about her daughters' college applications, worrying over her eccentric aging father, or overcoming the pitfalls of long-term partnership and the temptations of paired-with-cheese online goddess webinars, Loh somehow navigates the realities of what it means to be a middle-aged woman in the twenty-first century. By day's end, we just might need a box of chardonnay and a Roomba to clean up the mess., A comic exploration of a year in the life of an "imaginatively twisted and fearless" ( Los Angeles Times ) best-selling author. Ah, 55. Gateway to the golden years! Professional summiting. Emotional maturity. Easy surfing toward the glassy blue waters of retirement...Or maybe not? Middle age, for Sandra Tsing Loh, feels more like living a disorganized 25-year-old's life in an 85-year-old's malfunctioning body. With raucous wit and carefree candor, Loh recounts the struggles of leaning in, staying lean, and keeping her family well-fed and financially afloat--all those burdens of running a household that still, all-too-often, fall to women. The Madwoman and the Roomba chronicles a roller coaster year for Loh, her partner, and her two teenage daughters in their ramshackle quasi-Craftsman, with a front lawn that's more like a rectangle of compacted dirt and mice that greet her as she makes her morning coffee. Her daughters are spending more time online than off; her partner has become a Hindu, bringing in a household of monks; and she and her girlfriends are wondering over Groupon "well" drinks how they got here. Whether prematurely freaking out about her daughters' college applications, worrying over her eccentric aging father, or overcoming the pitfalls of long-term partnership and the temptations of paired-with-cheese online goddess webinars, Loh somehow navigates the realities of what it means to be a middle-aged woman in the twenty-first century. By day's end, we just might need a box of chardonnay and a Roomba to clean up the mess.
LC Classification Number
PS3562.O459Z46 2020

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