<![CDATA[Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around]]>

false <![CDATA[Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255715835m/6048938.jpg 6048938 1 It seems over the years I have become something of a professional enthusiast, which is weird, because I'm also kind of cynical and grumpy. Mostly, this all just makes me a typical New Orleanian of sorts. The cliché "New Orleans gets into people's blood" happens to be very true just not always convenient. For Cheryl Wagner (along with her indie-band boyfriend, a few eccentric pals, some ne'er-do-wells, and two aging basset hounds) abandoning the city she loved wasn't an option. Well-meaning out-of-town friends kept calling my Go phone with absurd suggestions of where Jake and I should stow ourselves. Austin, Asheville, and Portland kept coming up as our personal Shangri-Las for reasons I could not fathom other than that these were towns with well-documented vegetarian populations. This is the story of Cheryl's disturbing surprise view from her front porch after she moved back home to find everything she treasured in shambles...and her determined, absurd, and darkly funny three-year journey of trying to piece it all back together. If instead of moving from a small Louisiana town to New Orleans at seventeen I had fled the South like forward-looking modern careerist girls without money are all supposed to, and moved into one of those New York or Metroanywhere cubbyholes off a subway entrance, then I would not be on the back balcony about to fall to my death now. I would be bored, maybe. But safe! In the same heartfelt and hilarious voice that has drawn thousands of listeners to her broadcasts on public radio's This American Life, Wagner shares her unique yet universal story of rebuilding a life after it's been flooded, dried, and died...and then the copper thieves moved in... "This book would be heartbreaking if it weren't so funny, so clear-eyed, and so beautifully fierce." --James Whorton Jr., author of Frankland "I love it...Floods, fires, hoboes, guns, murder, crawfish, gardens, disappointed Moms, boyfriend trouble, video game restorers and quite a few flat tires it's all here." --Pete Jordan, author of Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States "Wagner writes with honesty and humor." --Annie Choi, author of Happy Birthday or Whatever "Imagine if Jack Kerouac had lived through the flood and wrote you a long, personal letter from the wreckage." --Jonathan Goldstein, author of Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible! and Host of CBC's and PRI's radio show WireTap "A wonderful, touching, thoughtful, crazy, loving book." --Frederick Barthelme 6224563 1 5 2009 Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around total:68|5:19|4:29|3:18|2:2|1:0| 68 269 161 22 4 0 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 11:31:37 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 20:29:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 15:08:14 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 18:27:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Apr 15 13:40:30 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 18:43:45 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 13:40:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 15:06:29 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 15:22:00 -0700 2009 Once
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a great story, cutting words and a format that feels like home.
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