Perfect gift for knitters, recent divorcees or those who
just like a good memoir. (You don't have to knit to find it
funny!)
"Watch out, Bridget Jones: There's a new singleton in town,
and she's got needles! This hilarious book chronicles the
life of a newly divorced woman, as she struggles, dates, and
knits her way back to sanity." --Knit.1 magazine
If you've
ever been dumped, duped, or three minutes from crazy, you'll
love Crazy Aunt Purl. Side-splittingly funny and profoundly
moving, Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair is the
true-life misadventures of Laurie Perry, aka Crazy Aunt
Purl, a slightly neurotic, displaced Southerner trying to
create a new life after her husband leaves her to "get his
creativity back." (Whatever the hell that means.) But will
she get her groove back in a tiny rented apartment, with a
mountain of boxes, visible panty lines, and a slight
wine-and-Cheetos problem?
"I was a thirty-something woman
living alone with four cats. I was probably going to be
divorced. I was on the short bus to crazy. I pictured my
grandmother making hoop-skirted yarn cozies for the toilet
paper. I pictured myself making doilies for furniture that I
did not own. I saw my cats wearing knitted hats with lace
appliquΓ©s. From my vantage point, knitting seemed like 100
percent of some road I did not want to walk down."
Yet,
surprisingly, it's knitting that saves her and emboldens her
to become fully engaged in life again--to discover new
friends; to take risks, however scary; and to navigate the
ins and outs of the modern dating scene.
"Dating has changed
in a decade. Now there is a higher chance of meeting someone
who has an internet porn addiction than someone who has a
job. In Los Angeles, your dinner companion might have served
time in Pelican Bay or run a meth lab. Or, worst of all, he
might spend all night talking about his agent, his craft,
and what it means to grow as an actor. Then he'll ask you to
read his screenplay."
And such is life in this quirky,
irreverent memoir, a spin-off of the blog phenomenon,
www.crazyauntpurl.com, one of the most successful online
diaries in history, exploding to an international fan base
of enthusiastic readers.
But don't worry, you don't have to
knit to love Aunt Purl. You just have to know what it feels
like to have loved, to have lost, or to have taken a leap of
faith.
We've all been there: Pass the wine.
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