Here are three delightful, bittersweet, especially-for-our-time adult stories of modern life as lived by men and women of a certain age: the baby boomer. Jenny Allenβs brilliant and witty narratives and Jules Feifferβs playfully expressive drawings coax to the surface the hidden anxieties, familiar frustrations, and downright fury that we try to convince ourselves we don't really feel. The characters in these stories are reckoning with lifeβs little surprises. But what they don't expect sometimes turns out to be all right anyway: a little redemption bubbling up in the kitchen where βJudyβs Wonder Chiliβ is made. . . or hiding in the folds of an origami crane, waiting to be found by the childrenβs book writer in βSomething Happenedβ. . . or revealing itself on the surface of the well-used chalkboard of the title tale.
In their humor, simplicity, and subtlety, these stories--brought to life perfectly through Feifferβs drawings--speak to our deepest adult-yet-childlike selves. Thereβs not a grown-up among us who wonβt be completely charmed.
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