Bibliograph

Seeing as your shoes are soon to be on fire, essays, Liza Monroy

Type

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Seeing as your shoes are soon to be on fire, essays, Liza Monroy

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Seeing as your shoes are soon to be on fire

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

941875142

Responsibility statement

Liza Monroy

Sub title

essays

Summary

"A collection of deeply personal essays that tackle the universal themes of romantic and familial love, fate, and chance, all told in a humorous and intelligent manner .... [The book] chronicles Liza's many misadventures in her quest for love. These misadventures span a variety of countries and a variety of men, all bound together under the watchful eye of her eccentric, single mother, a profiler for the U.S. State Department, who is soon using her professional aptitude to weed out the men in her daughter's path."--Page [4] of cover

Table Of Contents

The profiler's daughter -- Two husbands real and fake -- The fake trip -- Seeing as your shoes are soon to be on fire -- Brazilian fight club, a.k.a. "foreign exercise class" -- The gold star breakup -- The profiler vs. the by-referral-only tarot reader: an interlude -- Somebody's French girl: un essai en quatorze morceaux -- Icky sweater -- Love and death and faith and fate and marine iguanas -- The profiler selects -- The skeptic and the vision board party -- The hidden gem of America -- 33 -- The manifestation of Señor Bacon -- Stars burned twice as bright -- Crab legs in her carry-on -- Appendix A: The profiler checklist -- Appendix B: The special ed behavior modification expert's manual for getting controlling mothers under control: techniques for managing your s'mother

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