I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut,Wife, Mother, and Fri end to Man and Dog
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (953 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0425232212 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A Funny, Thought Provoking, Five Star Book" according to Edward A. Snyder. I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, and Friend to Man and DogThis autobiography is funny, thought provoking, and always very real. You will be entertained - and you will also find situations that apply to. I'm Sorry You Feel That Way is the catchy title of Diana Joseph's book of essays about her life. Subtitled The Astonishing But True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, and Friend to Man and Dog, Joseph recounts incidents from her life that made her the woman she is.The book is an hones. Sheri S. said Unconventional tales of the men in her life. Rating: Unconventional tales of the men in her life Rating: 3.5 starsDiana Joseph's memoir features a different chapter on each man from her past and present, including family members, friends and ex-boyfriends. The overall tone of the book is light and humorous, with little room for sentimentality and heart-warming tales. .5 starsDiana Joseph's memoir features a different chapter on each man from her past and present, including family members, friends and ex-boyfriends. The overall tone of the book is light and humorous, with little room for sentimentality and heart-warming tales
“See, what happens is sometimes a girl will go with this one, and then she’ll go with that one, and then she thinks, what the hell, that one there doesn’t look so bad, why not go with that one, too,” he’d opine as he pulled on an unfiltered Lucky. --Allison Block . She buys her son a doll to put him in touch with his feminine side but later decides she’d rather groom him to be the next Bruce Springsteen. In the years that followed, Joseph’s life was peppered with prickly relationships with the opposite sex, from boyfriends so icky they became woeful stories recounted over strawberry margaritas to an ex-husband who broke her heart (but still fixes her brakes). For debut memoirist Joseph, it was the “slut” talk administered by her hard-edged father. But there are poignant moments here, too, where emotional pain is played for more than just lau
Joseph currently teaches in the MFA program at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Diana Joseph has worked as a waitress, a short-order cook, a typist, and a teacher. Her essay "The Boy" won the Kentucky Women Writers Prize for Creative Nonfiction.
An Entertainment Weekly "must"-"It's hard to recall another collection of essays, or a memoir, with more natural charm." Surrounded by dysfunctional men-from her fourteen-year-old son to her high-maintenance boss-Diana Joseph did what she had to do: survive. Funny, fearless, and warmhearted, it is a portrait of a woman in all her endless complexities and contradictions, and of the people she has come to love in spite of-or rather because of-theirs.. I'm Sorry You Feel That Way is an honest, hilarious, and instantly recognizable memoir of a truly modern woman