Fifty Things That Arent My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years (Large Print)

Hardback

Main Details

Title Fifty Things That Arent My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years (Large Print)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Cathy Guisewite
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:490
Dimensions(mm): Height 218,Width 147
Category/GenreLarge Print
Thorndike Press
All Dates
Non-Fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9781432870799
Audience
General
Edition Large Print Edition

Publishing Details

Publisher Thorndike Press
Imprint Thorndike Press
NZ Release Date 16 October 2019
Publication Country United States

Description

From the creator of the iconic Cathy comic strip comes her first collection of funny, wise, poignant, and incredibly honest essays about being a woman in what she lovingly calls the panini generation. As the creator of Cathy, Cathy Guisewite found her way into the hearts of readers more than forty years ago, and has been there ever since. Her hilarious and deeply relatable look at the challenges of womanhood in a changing world became a cultural touchstone for women everywhere. Now Guisewite returns with her signature wit and warmth in this essay collection about another time of big transition, when everything starts changing and disappearing without permission: aging parents, aging children, aging self stuck in the middle. With her uniquely wry and funny admissions and insights, Guisewite unearths the humor and horror of everything from the mundane (trying to introduce her parents to TiVo and facing four decades worth of unorganized photos) to the profound (finding a purpose post-retirement, helping parents downsize their lives, and declaring freedom from all those things that hold us back). No longer confined to the limits of four cosmic panels, Guisewite holds out her hand in prose form and becomes a reassuring companion for those on the threshold of what happens next. Heartfelt and humane and always cathartic, Fifty Things That Arent My Fault is ideal reading for mothers, daughters, and anyone who is caught somewhere in between.