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Macmillan Children's Book

The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days

A Novel

Author: Ian Frazier; Read by Cynthia Nixon

The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days

The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days

$19.99

About This Book

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...

On Sale
10/02/2012

Book Details

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, with the Cursing Mommy—beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and nine—trying (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between Phyllis Diller's and Sylvia Plath's: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses of red wine, who speaks to the frustrations of everyday life.

From On the Rez, an investigation into the lives of modern-day Oglala Sioux written with an impressive mix of humor, compassion, and imagination, to Dating Your Mom, a side-splitting collection of humorous essays that imagines, among other things, how you might begin a romance with your mother, Frazier has demonstrated an astonishing ability to operate with ease in a variety of registers. Here he tackles yet another genre with his usual grace and aplomb, and an extra helping of his trademark wicked wit. The Cursing Mommy's failures and weaknesses are our own—and Frazier, at the height of his powers as a writer and observer, gives them a loving, satirical spin that is uniquely his own.

Imprint Publisher

Macmillan Audio

ISBN

9781427226983

In The News

“Cynthia Nixon does a wonderful job expressing The Cursing Mommy's escalating frustration, then returning to the calm-voiced, advice-dispensing sage to which The Cursing Mommy aspires.” —The Star-Ledger

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The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days

The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days

$19.99