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Also by Gina Barreca:

It's Not That I'm Bitter . . ., June 2010
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Babes In Boyland, March 2005
Hardcover
I'm With Stupid, February 2004
Hardcover

IT'S NOT THAT I'M BITTER . . .
By: Gina Barreca

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World

St. Martin's Press
June 2010
On Sale: June 8, 2010
240 pages
ISBN: 0312547277
EAN: 9780312547271
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Humor

In a world where eye cream is made from placenta, Gina Barreca is the lone voice calling out “But wait, whose placenta is it?” In this collection of deliciously quotable essays, Gina asks the big questions: Why is there no King Charming? Why does no bra ever fit? Why do people say "cougar" like it's a bad thing? Why do we call it a glass ceiling when it's just a thick layer of men? Barreca packs a hilarious punch while gleefully rejecting emotional torture, embracing limitless laughter, and showing women how they can conquer the world with good friends (“It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but a girl’s best friends are diamonds”), sharp wit, great shoes, and not a single worry about VPLs.

Gina Barreca, Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, wrote Babes in Boyland, They Used to Call Me Snow White but I Drifted and co-authored I’m With Stupid: One Man, One Woman, and 10,000 Years of Misunderstandings Between The Sexes Cleared Right Up with Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York.

In a world where eye cream is made from placenta, Gina Barreca is the lone voice calling out “But wait, whose placenta is it?” In this collection of essays, Gina asks the big questions: Why is there no King Charming? Why does no bra ever fit? Why do people say "cougar" like it's a bad thing? Why do we call it a glass ceiling when it's just a thick layer of men? Barreca packs a punch while rejecting emotional torture, embracing humor, and showing women how they can conquer the world with good friends, sharp wit, and a bit of practical irreverance.