Summary
Collects the author's recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, her newspaper career, and her experiences as a novelist. Full description
- Part I: Game of Crones
- The whole 60
- Game of crones
- Natural selection
- The art of losing friends and alienating people
- Part II: This be the other verse
- My father's bar
- The thirty-first stocking
- Swing, interrupted
- Revered ware
- Part III: My life as a villainess
- The Waco kid
- Tweety bird
- My life as a villainess
- Part IV: Genius
- A fine bromance
- Saving Mrs. banks
- My brilliant friend
- Men explain The wire to me.