Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair by Laurie Perry

Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair by Laurie Perry

If you've ever been dumped, duped, or three minutes from crazy, you'll love Crazy Aunt Purl. Side-splittingly funny and profoundly moving, Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair is the true-life misadventures of Laurie Perry, aka Crazy Aunt Purl, a slightly neurotic, displaced Southerner trying to create a new life after her husband leaves her to 'get his creativity back.' (Whatever that means.) But will she get her groove back in a tiny rented apartment, with a mountain of boxes, visible panty lines, and a slight wine-and-Cheetos problem?

I was a thirty-something woman living alone with four cats. I was probably going to be divorced. I was on the short bus to crazy. I pictured my grandmother making hoop-skirted yarn cozies for the toilet paper. I pictured myself making doilies for furniture that I did not own. I saw my cats wearing knitted hats with lace appliques. From my vantage point, knitting seemed like 100 percent of some road I did not want to walk down.

Yet, surprisingly, it's knitting that saves her and emboldens her to become fully engaged in life again--to discover new friends; to take risks, however scary; and to navigate the ins and outs of the modern dating scene.

Dating has changed in a decade. Now there is a higher chance of meeting someone who has an internet porn addiction than someone who has a job. In Los Angeles, your dinner companion might have served time in Pelican Bay or run a meth lab. Or, worst of all, he might spend all night talking about his agent, his craft, and what it means to grow as an actor. Then he'll ask you to read his screenplay.

And such is life in this quirky, irreverent memoir, a spin-off of the blog phenomenon, www.crazyauntpurl.com, one of the most successful online diaries in history, exploding to an international fan base of enthusiastic readers. But don't worry, you don't have to knit to love Aunt Purl. You just have to know what it feels like to have loved, to have lost, or to have taken a leap of faith. We've all been there: Pass the wine.

Laurie Perry lives in Los Angeles, where she knits and blogs about her daily life on the Crazy Aunt Purl blog. The Wall Street Journal and MSN.com have both covered Crazy Aunt Purl. Perry has written for the Winter Haven News Chief in Winter Haven, Florida, and the Los Angeles Daily News. Her original short tale Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair was included in Cheaper Than Therapy, a collection of knitting-themed articles.

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ISBN 13	9780757305917
ISBN 10	0757305911
Title	Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair
Author	Laurie Perry
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Health Communications
Year published	2007-10-15
Number of pages	284
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.