The Irish
Hungarian Guide to the Domestic Arts
By Erin O'Brien
~~Meet the gonzo housewife from
Cleveland~~
From
The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Minister of Culture Michael Heaton: "The Irish Hungarian Guide to
the Domestic Arts is a wonderfully exuberant and outlandish look on life
that is whip-smart, heart-felt and subversively funny enough to cause
unsuspecting readers to choke on their guffaws.
Put simply, O'Brien kicks ass." More from Michael Heaton.
From Dee Perry,
NPR host of WCPN's Around Noon:
"A new
domestic goddess is born." Listen to the interview.
From Donna Marchetti for the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
"Even as I cringed mightily at the intersection of a cleaver and live
lobster in her kitchen, I couldn't stop reading. I was laughing and
recoiling." More from Marchetti.
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The Irish Hungarian Guide to the
Domestic Arts
proves that the Rust Belt is the perfect backdrop for a whirlwind romance, that
shopping at the discount grocery is really performance art, and that a
half-acre lot in the middle of America is all you need to accommodate a field
of dreams.
This book is also a food memoir
for the rest of us, wherein a dozen ears of sweet corn turn a humble bowl of
chowder into a divine creation, the Hamburger Helper glove dukes it out with a
scrappy bowl of slumgullion, and banishing the blues
is as easy as lunch with Holly Golightly at the local
farmers' market.
A misfit Irish-but-not-Catholic
girl from Cleveland's west side, O'Brien is funny and sophisticated, projecting
triumph through the lens of the domicile without blinking when sorrow fills the
screen. The right measure of quirk and earthy sex separate this book from the
Erma Bombeck set, while O'Brien's dry Midwest humor
ties it all together.
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From Red Giant
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Categories: Creative nonfiction, humor, memoir, food, cooking, narrative
nonfiction, food memoir, and essay.
ISBN:
978-0-9829502-5-8
Contact: Dave
Megenhardt
216.375.1263
Updated
Feb. 12, 2012
This
book is printed in the USA