The Cursing Mommys Book of Days, Ian Frazier
The Cursing Mommys Book of Days, Ian Frazier
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The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days
A Novel

Author: Ian Frazier

Narrator: Cynthia Nixon

Unabridged: 7 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2012


Synopsis

Based on his widely read columns for The New Yorker, Ian Frazier's uproarious first novel, The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days, centers on a profoundly memorable character, sprung from an impressively fertile imagination. Structured as a daybook of sorts, with the Cursing Mommy—beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and nine—trying (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between Phyllis Diller's and Sylvia Plath's: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses of red wine, who speaks to the frustrations of everyday life.

From On the Rez, an investigation into the lives of modern-day Oglala Sioux written with an impressive mix of humor, compassion, and imagination, to Dating Your Mom, a side-splitting collection of humorous essays that imagines, among other things, how you might begin a romance with your mother, Frazier has demonstrated an astonishing ability to operate with ease in a variety of registers. Here he tackles yet another genre with his usual grace and aplomb, and an extra helping of his trademark wicked wit. The Cursing Mommy's failures and weaknesses are our own—and Frazier, at the height of his powers as a writer and observer, gives them a loving, satirical spin that is uniquely his own.

About Ian Frazier

Ian Frazier is the author of Travels in Siberia, Great Plains, On the Rez, Lamentations of the Father and Coyote V. Acme, among other works, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He graduated from Harvard University. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

About Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Nixon—an Emmy, Tony, and Grammy Award-winning actress—is best known for her role as Miranda Hobbes in the hit HBO Sex and the City series and the films Sex and the City: The Movie and Sex and the City 2. She has read several Earphones Award-winning audiobooks. Her narrations include Emily Giffin's Heart of the Matter and Baby Proof, as well as Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and Candace Bushnell's Lipstick Jungle.   Her other work includes her film debut in Little Darlings, an Emmy Award-winning guest role in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and her Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated role as Eleanor Roosevelt in HBO’s 2005 mini-series Warm Springs. Nixon has appeared in the Broadway productions of The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Hurlyburly, Angels in America, and The Heidi Chronicles, among many others. She is a founding member of Drama Dept., a New York theater company.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Suzanne on October 21, 2012

This book is...weird. Very, very weird. But I got a big kick out of it. It's NOT NOT NOT NOT for anyone who doesn't care for swearing in a book. It's pretty much half swearing, which I tended to just skip over after a while. The story, if there is a story, is about a married mother of two boys keepi......more

Goodreads review by Kathryn on January 01, 2013

I am reading a lot of books these days, because I pulled a hamstring right before Christmas and pretty much can't do anything except sit around reading books and resting my leg. This book was funny. Although most of us don't curse or drink as much as Cursing Mommy, I think almost all middle-class mot......more

Goodreads review by Michael on December 07, 2012

This is a very dangerous book!!! I laughed so hard that I thought I was going to hurt myself. The last book I read that was this funny was "Lucky Jim" by Kingsley Amis and that was about 50 years ago. I love the cursing mommy because she just has a #@#@ bad attitude and an amazingly ##@## way with w......more

Goodreads review by Janet on February 01, 2013

After reading a review, I bought this as a holiday gift for my favorite cursing mommy. Then I figured I’d better read a few pages to make sure it was right for her. And I ended up reading the whole thing before wrapping it up for her. (She’ll never know. Unless I tell her. Which I will.) It’s a quic......more

Goodreads review by Erin on January 21, 2013

I was looking for a light hearted, easy read after finishing a long project which kept me from reading. I wanted to giggle, to nod with understanding and to shake my head with some fictional craziness. I did giggle, I did nod with some understanding, and I did shake my head from the craziness. But I......more


Quotes

“Cynthia Nixon does a wonderful job expressing The Cursing Mommy's escalating frustration, then returning to the calm-voiced, advice-dispensing sage to which The Cursing Mommy aspires.” —The Star-Ledger


Awards

  • Audie Award Finalist