Disaster preparedness
Subtitle: essays
By: Heather Havrilesky.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781594487682
Subjects: Pessimism; Emergency management
Description: "In this thoughtful, funny memoir about surviving the real and imagined perils of childhood and early adulthood, Havrilesky charts how the most humiliating and painful moments in her past forced her to develop a wide range of coping strategies, some adaptive, some piteously ill suited to modern life. From early boxing lessons to the competitive grooming of cheerleading camp, from her parents' divorce to her father's sudden death, Havrilesky explores a dark path from innocence and optimism to self-protection and caution, bravely reexamining the injuries that shaped her, the lessons that sank in along the way, and the insights that eventually carried her through"--Dust jacket flap.
Table of contents: title: Cousins; title: Fear itself; title: Faculty wives; title: Jesus must die; title: D-I-V-O-R-C-E; title: Sting like a bee; title: Bobos; title: Cheer; title: With or without you; title: The toad work; title: A tree falls in the forest; title: Tell me the truth; title: One ring to rule them all; title: The flood museum; title: Disastrously unprepared.