Autobiography Of a Fat Bride: True Tales Of a Pretend Adulthood Laurie Notaro

How could you not like Laurie Notaro? Anyone who could come up with a title like THE IDIOT GIRLS' ACTION-ADVENTURE CLUB is just about guaranteed to write a good story. In this follow-up to that first collection of anecdotes about being single and unemployed, the chain-smoking and hard-drinking Catholic girl from Phoenix gets married and settles down--much to her own surprise. Though her self-deprecating my-family-screwed-me-up-for-life hyperbole can wear thin at times, she's pretty good at finding the humor in small moments: she works herself into a panic one night when she thinks her husband is late getting home, running through all the scenarios, from a fatal car accident to an affair--only to realize that's she's misread the clock, and that in fact he's on time. This is perfect reading for a bus commute (which is how I read most of it).