"Be prepared to hold tight as you're boosted into the cockpit for a two-day flight across the horizon. The odds of making it are against you—but what a ride!"
Three daring and determined women, inspired by Charles Lindbergh's flight, take to the skies in a risky race to be the first woman to make the dangerous trans-Atlantic flight.
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"Uneven, forced humorous essays on mundane topics."
Comic and essayist Notaro (The Potty Mouth at the Table, 2013 etc.) is back with another round of commentaries on her semiscattered life.
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"Entertaining beach reading for fans of humorous, breezy essays."
From comedic essayist and novelist Notaro (It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy, 2011, etc.), another compendium of humorous, heated, autobiographical tales about the minutiae of modern American life.
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"An uneven collection hampered by forced humor and a lack of cohesion."
Former humor columnist Notaro (Spooky Little Girl, 2010, etc.) gathers observations on the odds and ends of her transplanted life in a series of quirky domestic vignettes.
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"Contrived zaniness, short on plot and character."
In this fiction debut from Notaro (Autobiography of a Fat Bride, 2003, etc.), a quirky freelance writer from Arizona relocates to Spaulding, Wash., with her professor husband and enters the local "Sewer Pipe Queen" pageant to make friends.
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Remarkably unsuccessful attempt to amuse in a chronicle of one young woman's bumpy metamorphosis from feckless college graduate to responsible, married Arizona citizen.
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"Gives the impression of being scrawled during lunch hour for publication in a free local listings guide."
Perhaps intent on proving that her title is in no way hyperbolic, Arizona Republic humor columnist Notaro details the mundanities of life in such a way as to make herself and her friends appear as klutzy, inept, and alcoholic as possible.
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