The Cursing Mommy's Book Of Days (Hb)

The Cursing Mommy's Book Of Days (Hb)Based on his widely read columns for The New Yorker, Ian Frazier's uproarious first novel, The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days, centers on a profoundly memorable character, sprung from an impressively fertile imagination. Structured as a daybook of sorts, the book follows the Cursing Mommy? beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and eight? as she tries (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home,

and for notching up seven husbands

An unforgettable love affair set during WW1 and inspired by the true story of the author's own family history

and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream

and civilization-not merely the sexual relationship

who cost the queen her firstborn daughter

new pilots have completed their secretive training

Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens

It's the perfect friendship--as long as no one finds out about it

One of my favourite reads this year' Elif Shafak

But in the depths of the club - in the depths of her own despair - Araby will find more than oblivion

As secrets surface and truths are told

For residents of the twenty-first century