Queen Gene, The

Synopsis

In this hip, outrageous, so-funny-and-true-it-hurts novel, Jennifer Coburn explores the ties that bind--and sometimes strangle--between mothers and daughters. . . If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother. "You are so lucky to have a mother like Anjoli. " That's what all my friends say. But really, my friends weren't there when I was eight and my theatre-savvy, drama queen of a mother said she didn't want to take me to the Central Park Zoo because the animals didn't put on a good show. My mother is like a vapor: when she enters a room, she occupies every bit of space. Don't get me wrong--I adore my mom. . . from a distance. It's just, well, what can you say about a woman who takes her teacup Chihuahua to every new age healer in Manhattan, who has a living-beauty will so her eyebrows will still look great if she's in a coma, and who tells my cousin Kimmy that the sperm bank has too many rules and suggests a new lipstick and a train ride to Princeton instead? To top it off, she calls me ten times a day to say, "Darling, I'm in crisis!" What, like I'm not? In addition to mothering my mother, I'm also trying to keep my marriage hot with a two-year-old under foot. . . babysitting the artists in residence at my Berkshires artists' colony, which seems to be the Bermuda Triangle of creativity but a breeding ground for seriously insane. . . resisting an attraction to a man so sexy he could give your eyeballs an orgasm. . . and trying to rid my 100-year-old home of mischievous ghosts. Yeah, sort of got my hands full. The way I see it, I've got two choices: go completely mad, or start living my own life on my own terms, starting with my mother. I'm just not sure which option is crazier. . . "Entertaining. . . fresh, fast, and unpredictable. . . I didn't want it to end!" --Jen Lancaster "A fun and fast-paced ride through family madness. . . I really enjoyed it!" --Caren Lissner

Copyright:

2007

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9780758286826

Publisher:

Kensington

Date of Addition:

11/16/13

Copyrighted By:

Jennifer Coburn

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction, Humor

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.