num_pages: 208
description: "Tense, moving, and hilarious...[a] dark jewel of a novel." —Francine Prose, O: The Oprah Magazine.After a ten-year silence, Mary Robison has emerged with a novel so beguiling and funny that it has brought critics and her live-reading audiences to their feet. Why Did I Ever takes us along on the darkest of private journeys. The story, told by a woman named Money Breton, is submitted like a furious and persuasive diary—a tale as fierce and taut as its fictional teller. Author Biography: Mary Robison is the author of three story collections and two novels. She has written for Hollywood and been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1977. She is now a professor at the University of Southern Mississippi.
title: Why Did I Ever
titlecomplete: Why Did I Ever
genres: Comedy, Adult Fiction, Cult Classics, Short Stories, Humor, Novels, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1663
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Basic Books