
Kissing the Crisis
Field Notes on Foul-Mouthed Babies, Disenchanted Women & Careening into Middle AgeIn Stock
ISBN: 9781610352901
Paperback
145 Pages
Subjects:
Biography: general
Gender studies: women
Family & relationships
Humour
Youre going on a journey to a strange new country where you will look different, act different, even feel different. Its like youre becoming a whole new person, and that person is your mother. Your new homeland is middle age, and you need a native guide to teach you how to survive here, or at least to show you where the good bars are. Written for every woman who knows that turning 40 is no reason to become respectable, 'Kissing the Crisis' is the field guide you need to blaze your own unconventional trail through the jungle of middle age. Humorist Kara Martinez Bachman reports from the front lines of the battle to stay awake after 9 p.m., and her adventures will make you scream with laughter, cringe with embarrassment, and vow to tackle your own midlife crisis with a can-do attitude and a tasty cocktail. Whether shes searching for a child-friendly bar for a parents drinking session, starting the worlds best ukelele/harp gothic rock band, coping with a baby cursing like a sailor in the grocery store, or conquering her fear of a terrifying death during Hurricane Katrina, Bachman shows that life doesnt end at 40 ... it just gets weirder.
Kara Martinez Bachman is a New Orleans-based freelance writer. Her work has appeared in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, NOLA.com, The Writer, Funny Times, NPR's State of the Re:Union, Ellipsis, Magnolia Quarterly, the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina retrospective, Katrina Memoirs, and numerous other publications.
"Kara Bachman has fast become the woman I want living next door to me. With her razor-blade wit, tell-it-like-it-is essays on navigating middle age (while tending children), she is exploring new turf, and the grass is super green and fertile. Readers will love her style, humor and stories that will make you guffaw and snort in public while reading. Middle age never felt so good." -- Susan Reinhardt, author of "Chimes from a Cracked Southern Belle" & "Not Tonight Honey, Wait 'til I'm a Size 6"
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