Sandra Tsing Loh

The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A comic exploration of a year in the life of an imaginatively twisted and fearless (Los Angeles Times) best-selling author.

Ah, 55. Gateway to the golden years! Professional summiting. Emotional maturity. Easy surfing toward the glassy blue waters of retirement. . . . Or maybe not? Middle age, for Sandra Tsing Loh, feels more like living a disorganized 25-year-old's life in an 85-year-old's malfunctioning body. With raucous wit and carefree candor, Loh recounts the struggles of leaning in, staying lean, and keeping her family well-fed and financially afloat?all those burdens of running a household that still, all-too-often, fall to women.

The Madwoman and the Roomba chronicles a roller coaster year for Loh, her partner, and her two teenage daughters in their ramshackle quasi-Craftsman, with a front lawn that's more like a rectangle of compacted dirt and mice that greet her as she makes her morning coffee. Her daughters are spending more time online than off; her partner has become a Hindu, bringing in a household of monks; and she and her girlfriends are wondering over Groupon well drinks how they got here. Whether prematurely freaking out about her daughters' college applications, worrying over her eccentric aging father, or overcoming the pitfalls of long-term partnership and the temptations of paired-with-cheese online goddess webinars, Loh somehow navigates the realities of what it means to be a middle-aged woman in the twenty-first century. Including a new epilogue hilariously recounting her family's quarantine experience during the pandemic, The Madwoman and the Roomba is a wildly funny testament to Loh's brilliant wit and rock-solid resilience (Henry Alford).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393249217
• Artikelnr.: 59590861

Autorenporträt

Sandra Tsing Loh is a writer and performer. Her work has been heard on NPR's Morning Edition and This American Life. Her book The Madwoman in the Volvo was a New York Times Notable Book of 2014. Loh lives in Pasadena, California.