Amy Biancolli

Figuring Shit Out (eBook, ePUB)

Love, Laughter, Suicide, and Survival

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Your life isn't over." My dad says this. "I mean, YOUR life isn't over. Beyond the kids. You'll go on living, doing things. This isn't it." I know, I assure him. I have the kids. They need me. They're my life now. "OK," he replies, then grunts—more of a brief hum. He only hums when he thinks I'm full of shit.

Shockingly single. Amy Biancolli's life went off script more dramatically than most after her husband of twenty years jumped off the roof of a parking garage. Left with three children, a three-story house, and a pile of knotty psychological complications, Amy realizes the flooding dishwasher, dead car battery, rapidly growing lawn, basement sump pump, and broken doorknob aren't going to fix themselves. She also realizes that "figuring shit out" means accepting the horrors that came her way, rolling with them, slogging through them, helping others through theirs, and working her way through life with love and laughter.

Amy Biancolli is an author and journalist whose column appears in the Albany Times Union. Before that, Amy served as film critic for the Houston Chronicle where her reviews, published around the country, won her the 2007 Comment and Criticism Award from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association. Biancolli is the author of House of Holy Fools: A Family Portrait in Six Cracked Parts, which earned her Albany Author of the Year. Amy lives in Albany, New York, with her three children.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Behler Publications, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 245
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781933016467
• Artikelnr.: 41153289

Autorenporträt

Amy Biancolli is an author and journalist, who has an arts writer and column for the Albany Times Union. Amy served as film critic for the Houston Chronicle where her reviews, published around the country, won her the 2007 Comment and Criticism Award from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association.

Biancolli is the author of Fritz Kreisler: Love's Sorrow, Love's Joy, House of Holy Fools: A Family Portrait in Six Cracked Parts, which earned her Albany Author of the Year, and the play, Kreisler's Long Sleep, where it had a staged reading at the Capital Repertory Theatre. Amy lives in Albany with her three children.

Inhaltsangabe

. Cops
1 2. Things I Can't Say to Your Face
Part I
5 3. Social Security
10 4. Improvisation
13 5. The Hall Pass
15 6. What I Do When I Do What I Do
19 7. The Casserole Club Has Now Come to Order
21 8. Two
Two
Two People at Once
25 9. And Now
a Few Words about Guilt
27 10. Holy Shit
29 11. In Which I Begin to Resemble Alaskan Wildlife
32 12. The Things I'm Not
36 13. The Lasts
40 14. F.S.O.
Part I
43 15. Lost in Space
46 16. Thanksgiving
48 17. Not a Sad Tink
53 18. Smaller
58 19. Things I Can't Say to Your Face
Part II
60 20. In Which I Begin to Regard My Legs Anew
64 21. The Checkout Line Jollies
Part I
67 22. We Three Rings
70 23. Looking for Mr. Manly Pants
Part I
75 24. F.S.O.
Part II
78 25. Stink and Weeds
81 26. Ecuador Stories
Part I: Arrival
84 27. Ecuador Stories
Part II: The Middle
89 28. Ecuador Stories
Part III: Whitewater
92 29. Ecuador Stories
Part IV: Shit
96 30. Ecuador Stories
Part V: Monkeys
More Monkeys
and a Dog
101 31. I Really Need To Say This Out Loud
108 32. The Hitchhiker
111 33. Things I Can't Say To Your Face
Part III
118 34. Alone with Electra
124 35. New Amy Loads the Dishwasher
129 36. W.G.W.
134 37. Memo to Clooney Redux
140 38. The Checkout Line Jollies
Part II
144 39. At Rainbow Narrows
149 40. Looking for Mr. Manly Pants
Part II
154 41. Things I Can't Say to Your Face
Part IV
160 42. My Homie
Job
165 43. Unemployment
171 44. The Wisdom of the Pam
176 45. Things I Can't Say to Your Face
Part V
179 46. Oh My God
182 47. The Checkout Line Jollies
Part III
184 48. Belaying and Belayed
187 49. Isabella
190 50. Snails
192 Chris Ringwald Bio
197 Acknowledgments
199