Quinn Cummings is a contemporary woman with a keen sense of right and wrong‚ and a sharp sense of humor. In this‚ her first collection of essays‚ she basks in the delight and difficulty of the quotidian‚ taking a swipe at everything from the American Girl doll‚ animals‚ child stardom (hers)‚ and childhood (her daughter's). Quinn has a talent for capturing the everyday and the absurd.
Consider:
I live in Los Angeles where it is now socially acceptable to carry a Starbucks cup anywhere‚ including a funeral.
Nearly everything I knit quickly develops an uncanny resemblance to a double helix. The only things which don't resemble a double helix are the potholders I knit. They resemble tumors.
Lulubelle had been found as a tiny kitten living under a car‚ having come from a long line of feral cats who would have considered living under a car to be a fabulous dream. Four years later‚ she had become yet another living thing in Los Angeles with food allergies.
