Product Description
"She is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living....Lovely stuff." VOGUE It's the expose to end all exposes--the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters.
Reviews:
Fran (USA: FL) (2010/12/07): I grew up with Erma Bombeck's column but was too young to appreciate much of the humor in her anecdotes. While it was fun to revisit them as an adult with a home and family of my own, I cannot help but notice the dating of some of the material and attitudes. The stories are still funny and some are even still relevant but the book just wasn't entertaining enough to make me want to keep it in my collection.
If you enjoy vintage humor or are curious about the domesticity of the past, you'll probably enjoy her writing. Otherwise, you may be frustrated, appalled, and offended as I was.
