Title: Everybody into the Pool
Subtitle: True Tales
First published: 2005
Description: Beth Lisick started out as a homecoming princess with a Crisco-aided tan and a bad perm. And then everything changed. Plunging headlong into America's deepest subcultures, while keeping both feet firmly planted in her parents' Leave It to Beaver values, Lisick makes her adult home on the fringe of mainstream culture and finds it rich with paradox and humor. On the one hand, she lives in "Brokeley" with drug dealers and street gangs; on the other, she drives a station wagon with a baby seat in the back, makes her own chicken stock, and attends ladies' luncheons. How exactly did this suburban girl-next-door end up as one of San Francisco's foremost chroniclers of alternative culture? Lisick explains it all in her hilarious, irreverent, bestselling memoir, Everybody into the Pool.Fans of David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell will relish Lisick's scathingly funny, smart, very real take on the effluvia of daily living. No matter what community she's exposing to the light, Lisick always hits the right chord.
Subjects: Social life and customs, American Authors, Homes and haunts, Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Biography, American wit and humor, Authors, american, San francisco (calif.), social life and customs, Women, united states, biography
Places: California, San Francisco, San Francisco (Calif.)
People: Beth Lisick (1968-)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3562.I77 Z47 2005