From Publishers Weekly
Travel writer Leo has collected 28 short and snappy travelstories bursting with exuberant candor and crackling humor sure toleave readers feeling that to not have an adventure to remember is agreat loss indeed. Many of these bite-size reminiscences chroniclepersonal ordeals endured in places with unfamiliar amenities,languages and/or cultures. For example, Christie Eckardt's elasticallychallenged underwear falls down in a Muslim country; Kathleen Meyer(How to Shit in the Woods) writes about-what else?-"thissubject... which seems to be overwhelmingly mine"; and Anne Lamott isjealous of younger backsides on the beach. The gems of the bunch areNancy Bartlett's "Panic, in Any Other Language," describing anembarrassing incident in an opulent Italian swimsuit boutique;Christine Michaud's "Chador Etiquette," on her well-intentioned butdisastrous attempt to wear a chador (a large black cloak and headcovering) to a Kuwait shopping mall; and Christine Nielsen's titlestory, which manages, completely by her description of participatingin it, to endear readers to the annual Burning Man project in theNevada desert, a "crazy celebration of life's diversity andcreativity." Some of the stories are on the lengthy side, but as awhole, the anthology will definitely light a fire under, as thededication states, "all the women who sit at home or behind theirdesks bitching that they never get to go anywhere."Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Button your blouse, here comes a sandstorm of laughs! Travel isn't always what we dream it will be, but oh, the stories that follow. Share in the hilarious, bizarre, and unforgettable misadventures of 29 women whose trips went comically awry. From Australia to Zambia, up Nepal's mountains and along Mexico's beaches, the true stories in this collection will make you laugh, groan, and sympathize with these travelers who took a trip on the lighter side. Lose your panties on a city street in Abu Dhabi with Christie Eckardt * Dodge beer bottles and punches with Alison Wright as she serves up brew at a wild pub in Australia * Enjoy the nutty nitty-gritty of Burning Man in the Nevada desert with Christine Nielsen * Feel the delicious freedom to be fat in Tahiti with Sandra Tsing Loh * Turn beet red with Kate Crawford in Paris, locked out of her boyfriend's apartment in a t-shirt and nothing more * Toss your cookies with Deborah Bear as she tests alternative seasickness remedies on a Pacific voyage Including stories by Anne Lamott, Ellen Degeneres, Sarah Vowell, Margo Kaufman, Sandra Tsing Loh, Adair Lara, and many more...
About the Author
Jennifer L. Leo is a Chinese-American born with a gift for gab and a hunger for an everlasting craps game. She is co-editor of A Woman's Path, and her writing has also appeared in Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel, A Woman's Passion for Travel, The Adventure of Food, Lonely Planet World Food Guides Hong Kong, BootsnAll.com, and other books in the Travelers' Tales series. When not working on a career in print and online travel publishing, Jen fantasizes about her dream job of being a jewelry thief and stay-at-home mom. For practice she lifts brown mustard from burger joints and borrows children from her friends. Her nomadic bloodline can be traced back five generations to Canton, China.
Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road FROM THE PUBLISHER
Travel doesn't always live up to one's expectations - it sometimes exceeds them. For the 25 women contributors to Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures, hitting the road inspires tales that their friends and families, as well as the readers of this book, will never forget. Readers laugh, cry, and commiserate with these women and their comical, bizarre, and unforgettable adventures including being chased by a herd of 50 African elephants, getting bitten by a goddess-possessed healer in Kathmandu, nightclubbing with a prude in Bangkok's infamous Patpong sex district, and observing the shenanigans of a delirious new son-in-law in the Himalayas. Contributors include Anne Lamott, Ellen Degeneres, Sandra Tsing Loh, Sarah Vowell, and Cynthia Kaplan.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
Travel writer Leo has collected 28 short and snappy travel stories bursting with exuberant candor and crackling humor sure to leave readers feeling that to not have an adventure to remember is a great loss indeed. Many of these bite-size reminiscences chronicle personal ordeals endured in places with unfamiliar amenities, languages and/or cultures. For example, Christie Eckardt's elastically challenged underwear falls down in a Muslim country; Kathleen Meyer (How to Shit in the Woods) writes about-what else?-"this subject... which seems to be overwhelmingly mine"; and Anne Lamott is jealous of younger backsides on the beach. The gems of the bunch are Nancy Bartlett's "Panic, in Any Other Language," describing an embarrassing incident in an opulent Italian swimsuit boutique; Christine Michaud's "Chador Etiquette," on her well-intentioned but disastrous attempt to wear a chador (a large black cloak and head covering) to a Kuwait shopping mall; and Christine Nielsen's title story, which manages, completely by her description of participating in it, to endear readers to the annual Burning Man project in the Nevada desert, a "crazy celebration of life's diversity and creativity." Some of the stories are on the lengthy side, but as a whole, the anthology will definitely light a fire under, as the dedication states, "all the women who sit at home or behind their desks bitching that they never get to go anywhere." (May) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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