The
unstoppable, irreverent mother-daughter team presents a new collection of funny
stories and true confessions that every woman can relate to. From identity
theft to the hazards of bicycling to college reunions and eating on the beach,
Lisa and Francesca tackle the quirks, absurdities, and wonders of everyday life
with wit and warmth. As Lisa says, "More and more, especially in the
summertime when I'm sitting on the beach, I'm learning not to sweat it. To go
back to the child that I used to be. To see myself through the loving eyes of
my parents. To eat on the beach. And not to worry about whether every little
thing makes me look fat. In fact, not to worry at all."
So put aside your worries and join Lisa and Francesca as they navigate
their way through the crazy world we live in, laughing along the way.
Lisa
Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella have teamed up again to write
a fabulous must read for the summer.
Full of fun short stories that will have you laughing out loud one
minute and tearing up the next, you are sure to relate to several of these
stories as they touch on a wide array of subjects.
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About the Authors:
Lisa Scottoline is the New
York Times bestselling author and Edgar award-winning author of 23 novels,
including her latest, Every Fifteen Minutes. She also writes a
weekly column with her daughter Francesca Serritella for the Philadelphia
Inquirer titled "Chick Wit" which is a witty and fun take on
life from a woman's perspective. These stories, along with many other
never-before-published stories, have been collected in four books including
their most recent, Have a Nice Guilt Trip, and the earlier, Meet Me
at Emotional Baggage Claim, Best Friends, Occasional Enemies, Why My Third
Husband Will Be a Dog, which has been optioned for TV, and My Nest Isn't
Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space. Lisa reviews popular fiction and
non-fiction, and her reviews have appeared in New York Times, The
Washington Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Lisa has served
as President of Mystery Writers of America and has taught a course she
developed, "Justice and Fiction" at The University of Pennsylvania
Law School, her alma mater. Lisa is a regular and much sought after speaker at
library and corporate events. Lisa has over 30 million copies of her books in
print and is published in over 35 countries. She lives in the Philadelphia area
with an array of disobedient pets, and she wouldn't have it any other way.
Francesca
Serritella was
born in Philadelphia, and grew up in its suburbs. She went to Harvard, where
she majored in English. After a year or two of feeling entirely intimidated by
the place, she found her stride and went on to receive the Charles Edmond
Horman Prize and the Baron Russell Briggs Prize for creative writing. Her
senior thesis, a novella, won the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize, and she graduated
with honors.
Her
mother is Lisa Scottoline. She's a bestselling author, her best friend, and her
hero. Together, they write a weekly humor column in The Philadelphia
Inquirer called "Chick Wit." She contribute once a month to
offer a younger perspective on their wacky family and life in general, and if
you aren't an Inquirer subscriber, you can find a selection of her
columns here.
The column has been published as a series of collections of essays. The
first and the second, Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog, and My
Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space, have some of her essays
but not her name on it. The third, fourth, and fifth, Best Friends,
Occasional Enemies, Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim and Have a
Nice Guilt Trip, have her name on the cover!
Currently,
she live in New York City with her dog, Pip. When she’s not writing, she’s
probably taking cell phone pictures of Pip and marveling at how cute he is, so
if you want to see those, he has his very own page here.
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I love the cover. I bet the stories are really good too.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to read this book, thank you for sharing
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