The Resource If it's not one thing, it's your mother, Julia Sweeney
If it's not one thing, it's your mother, Julia Sweeney
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The item If it's not one thing, it's your mother, Julia Sweeney represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Normal Public Library.
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- Summary
- While Julia Sweeney is known as a talented comedienne and writer/performer of her one-woman shows, she is also a talented essayist--and the past few years have provided her with some rich material. Julia adopted a Chinese girl named Mulan and then, a few years later, married and moved from Los Angeles to Chicago. She writes about deciding to adopt her child, strollers, nannies, knitting, being adopted by a dog, The Food Network, and meeting Mr. Right through an email from a complete stranger. Some of the essays reveal Julia's ability to find that essential thread of human connection, whether it's with her mother-in-law or with an anonymous customer service rep during a late-night phone call. But no matter what the topic, Julia always writes with elegant precision, pinning her jokes with razor-sharp observations while articulating feelings that we all share.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
- Extent
- viii, 246 p.
- Contents
-
- Prologue
- Week one: unto me a child is given
- If it's not one thing, it's your mother
- Just tinking
- Channeling food
- China sweeney
- Strong and beautiful
- Letters from camp
- Week two: independence
- Three Chinese nannies
- Arden
- Big strollers are bad
- Three boyfriends and reflections on a high school crush
- The birds and the bees
- A fan letter
- Sphexy
- Week three: death
- The decline and fall of practically everybody
- Starter gods
- Pussy
- Baby on board
- The color of skin
- Phone bill
- Week four: dependence
- My nemesis
- A proposal at Starbucks
- An education
- Hinky dink is sinking
- Tomorrow they arrive
- Isbn
- 9781451674040
- Label
- If it's not one thing, it's your mother
- Title
- If it's not one thing, it's your mother
- Statement of responsibility
- Julia Sweeney
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- While Julia Sweeney is known as a talented comedienne and writer/performer of her one-woman shows, she is also a talented essayist--and the past few years have provided her with some rich material. Julia adopted a Chinese girl named Mulan and then, a few years later, married and moved from Los Angeles to Chicago. She writes about deciding to adopt her child, strollers, nannies, knitting, being adopted by a dog, The Food Network, and meeting Mr. Right through an email from a complete stranger. Some of the essays reveal Julia's ability to find that essential thread of human connection, whether it's with her mother-in-law or with an anonymous customer service rep during a late-night phone call. But no matter what the topic, Julia always writes with elegant precision, pinning her jokes with razor-sharp observations while articulating feelings that we all share.--From publisher description
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sweeney, Julia
- Dewey number
-
- 362.734092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV875
- LC item number
- .S94 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Sweeney, Julia
- Adopted children
- Motherhood
- Parenting
- Label
- If it's not one thing, it's your mother, Julia Sweeney
- Contents
- Prologue -- Week one: unto me a child is given -- If it's not one thing, it's your mother -- Just tinking -- Channeling food -- China sweeney -- Strong and beautiful -- Letters from camp -- Week two: independence -- Three Chinese nannies -- Arden -- Big strollers are bad -- Three boyfriends and reflections on a high school crush -- The birds and the bees -- A fan letter -- Sphexy -- Week three: death -- The decline and fall of practically everybody -- Starter gods -- Pussy -- Baby on board -- The color of skin -- Phone bill -- Week four: dependence -- My nemesis -- A proposal at Starbucks -- An education -- Hinky dink is sinking -- Tomorrow they arrive
- Control code
- ocn800031595
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
- Extent
- viii, 246 p.
- Isbn
- 9781451674040
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2012049503
- System control number
- (OCoLC)800031595
- Label
- If it's not one thing, it's your mother, Julia Sweeney
- Contents
- Prologue -- Week one: unto me a child is given -- If it's not one thing, it's your mother -- Just tinking -- Channeling food -- China sweeney -- Strong and beautiful -- Letters from camp -- Week two: independence -- Three Chinese nannies -- Arden -- Big strollers are bad -- Three boyfriends and reflections on a high school crush -- The birds and the bees -- A fan letter -- Sphexy -- Week three: death -- The decline and fall of practically everybody -- Starter gods -- Pussy -- Baby on board -- The color of skin -- Phone bill -- Week four: dependence -- My nemesis -- A proposal at Starbucks -- An education -- Hinky dink is sinking -- Tomorrow they arrive
- Control code
- ocn800031595
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
- Extent
- viii, 246 p.
- Isbn
- 9781451674040
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2012049503
- System control number
- (OCoLC)800031595
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