Seeing as your shoes are soon to be on fire : essays / Liza Monroy.

Author
Monroy, Liza [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Berkeley : Soft Skull Press, 2016.
Description
245 pages ; 23 cm

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    "Liza Monroy new book is collection of deeply personal essays that tackle the universal themes of romantic and familial love, fate and chance, all told in a humorous and intelligent manner that keeps the reader yearning for more. Created in the wake of Liza's popular essays- including her piece for the Modern Love column in the New York Times Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire chronicles Liza's many misadventures in her quest for love. These misadventures span a variety of countries and a variety of men, all bound together under the watchful eye of her eccentric, single mother, a profiler for the U.S. State Department, who is soon using her professional aptitude to weed out the men in her daughter path."-- Provided by the publisher.
    Notes
    "Memoir"--Page 4 of cover.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (page 241).
    Contents
    • The profiler's daughter
    • Two husbands real and fake
    • The fake trip
    • Seeing as your shoes are soon to be on fire
    • Brazilian fight club, a.k.a. "foreign exercise class"
    • The gold star breakup
    • The profiler vs. the by-referral-only tarot reader: an interlude
    • Somebody's French girl: un essai en quatorze morceaux
    • Icky sweater
    • Love and death and faith and fate and marine iguanas
    • The profiler selects
    • The skeptic and the vision board party
    • The hidden gem of America
    • 33
    • The manifestation of Señor Bacon
    • Stars burned twice as bright
    • Crab legs in her carry-on
    • Appendix A: The profiler checklist
    • Appendix B: The special ed behavior modification expert's manual for getting controlling mothers under control: techniques for managing your s'mother.
    ISBN
    • 1593766491 ((pbk.))
    • 9781593766498 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2018286225
    OCLC
    941875142
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