Frumpy Middle-Aged Mom: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Motherhood

Name: Frumpy Middle-Aged Mom: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Motherhood
Brand: Prospect Park Books
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Rating: 4.97 (33 reviews)
ISBN: 9781938849664

by Marla Jo Fisher

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"If you've ever heard yourself say, 'No officer, that is not my son,’ or had to explain to your kids that Led Zeppelin is not a mineral, Fisher is your kind of gal. Even if you've never said either of those things, Fisher is still your gal. This book has laughs on every page, and as a parent of teenagers, I desperately needed every one. I loved it!"
― W. Bruce Cameron, New York Times bestselling author of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter

Never mind the Real Housewives of Orange County―Marla Jo Fisher is the woman everyone can relate to, complete with bad parenting, rotten dogs, ill health, and fashion faux pas. For nearly two decades, in the Orange County Register and many syndicated papers, readers have delighted in Marla Jo’s subversive humor, cranky intellect, and huge heart on her journey through broke, single, after-40 motherhood, when she adopted Cheetah Boy and Curly Girl, to her oddball adventures around the globe, to the sublime ridiculousness of life next door. Even while facing a devastating diagnosis, Fisher teaches us that humor is the balm that eases and the very thing that binds us together.

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Book details

Author: Marla Jo Fisher
Imprint: Prospect Park Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published: November 24, 2020
Formats: Paperback
Subjects: Humor › Topic › Marriage & Family
Humor › Form › Anecdotes, Epigrams & Quotations
Humor › Form › Essays
Topics: parenting teens · humor essays · single mother · adoption · Orange County · midlife · cancer survival
ISBN-13: 9781938849664

About the author

MARLA JO FISHER is a journalist and humor columnist whose work runs in eleven newspapers across the Southern California News Group, including the Orange County Register. She is the author of Frumpy Middle-Aged Mom: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Motherhood.

Fisher is a former award-winning investigative reporter whose columns and travel articles have appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, among other publications nationwide.

When she’s not writing, Fisher advocates for children in foster care, having adopted two children from the system at age 46. That experience forms the heart of her Frumpy Middle-Aged Mom column, published weekly.

Marla lives in Southern California.

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