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Things to Bring, S#!T to Do... and other inventories of anxiety
Karen Rizzolo
Stewart, Tabori and Chang
October 2006
On Sale: October 1, 2006
176 pages
ISBN: 1584795425
EAN: 9781584795421
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Non-Fiction
The emotional highs and lows, the romantic escapades and the
financial setbacks, the moments of comedy, anxiety, and
personal tragedy—they’re all brought vividly to life in
Things to Bring, S#!t to Do, the first memoir told entirely
in lists. Annotated with Karen’s insightful recollections,
the book presents a compelling portrait—sometimes touching,
sometimes hilarious—of a woman, her family, and her friends
from 1970s America to the present day. Like many women (and some men, too), Karen Rizzo is a
compulsive list-maker. She scribbles grocery lists on
Post-It notes, pencils lists of resolutions on the backs of
greeting cards, regularly jots down all the things she needs
to bring, to do, to remember . . Unlike the rest of us, however, Karen has saved her
lists—dating from the list of favorite things she wrote as a
kid (Favorite animal: horse; Color: purple; Food: olives
from Dad’s martini). Together, these scraps of paper form an
intimate chronicle of her life’s journey, from her early
struggles with work and love to the years spent watching her
mother battle breast cancer to the times she’s had to juggle
the demands of marriage and motherhood with those of her career.
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