| Description |
245 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"Memoir"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 241). |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"Liza Monroy's new book is 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 that keeps the reader yearning for more. Created in the wake of Liza's popular essays -- including her piece for the Modern Love column in the New York Times -- Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire 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."-- Provided by the publisher. |
| Subject |
Monroy, Liza.
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Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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American essays -- 21st century.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Essays.
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| ISBN |
1593766491 (pbk.) |
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9781593766498 (pbk.) |
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