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S'Mother
The Story of a Man, His Mom, and the Thousands of Altogether Insane Letters She's Mailed Him
ISBN: 9780810996458
(HB - E)
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Adam Chester is the son of a very loving, somewhat crazy Mom who for almost 30 years has peppered his life with unsolicited advice, news updates, opinions and the occasional Tarragon Chicken recipe. In truth, Adam has saved over 800 letters of the thousands of inappropriate, embarrassing and utterly mad directives she's sent - some of which, out of the sheer frustration of their regularity, he has yet to open. S'MOTHER is a memoir based on these pithy letters and postcards and is about the relationship between an only son and his mother and the pathological extremes maternal instincts can take. From the time he leaves the nest to attend college clear across the country, to his single life, to getting married and to having two kids, Adam's Mom has been there dispensing advice and wisdomA" in a most irrelevant way. Why is a grown woman so frantic that her adult son screw on his windows to keep out Killer Bees? Why the letters about finding wads of chewed tobacco in her ice cream? How many Last Will and Testaments can one person be the recipient of before wanting to leap off the tallest building in a single bound? Look! Up in the sky! It's an intruder! It's a Firestone Tire! It's a drug-resistant form of gonorrhea! No - it's just Adam's Mom.
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