I'm Sorry You Feel That Way (Hardcover)

By Diana Joseph
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Description

Meet the men in Diana Joseph's life: "The boy," Diana's fourteen-year-old son, who supports the NRA and dreams of living in a house with wall-to-wall carpeting; Diana's father, who's called her on the telephone twice, ever, and who sat her down when she was twelve to caution her against becoming a slut (she didn't listen); Diana's brothers, or, as her father calls them, "the two assholes"; Diana's ex-husband, a lumberjack with three ex-wives, yet he's still the first one she calls when she's in a jam; and Diana's common-law husband, Al, an English professor who's been mistakenly called mentally challenged. Ostensibly organized around the various men in Diana's life, this is really a memoir about what it's like to be a modern, smart woman making her way in the world.

About the Author

Diana Joseph has worked as a waitress, a short-order cook, a typist, and a teacher. Her essay "The Boy" won the Kentucky Women Writers Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Joseph currently teaches in the MFA program at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Praise for I'm Sorry You Feel That Way…

“Ms. Joseph’s sense of the apt detail, of the rapid-fire of human commerce, of the way the important gets hidden in the flippant, the hilarity of it all, the sadness, too, the sympathy she emits and provokes for the complexity of just living— all that makes this book irresistible to me.”
—Richard Ford

“Somehow hard-boiled and warmhearted all at once, Joseph’s stories have an unflinching honesty and a wry appreciation for the absurdities of masculinity and motherhood.”
—Sarah Vowell, author of Assassination Vacation

“I'm Sorry You Feel That Way might sound like a sideways swipe at a memoir, but nothing could be further from the truth — it manages to be nostalgic, sad, and pee-in-your-pants funny.” A–
— Entertainment Weekly

“Like the best storytellers –fictional or otherwise – Diana Joseph treats her people with compassion. She manages to be very funny. But she refuses to reduce her family to a comedy routine. Her stories are often sad, but she never lionizes suffering. Instead, she sifts through the ruins of her romantic and emotional entanglements, with an eye on the absurdities we endure in the name of love…I'm Sorry You Feel That Way is sure to offend the faint of heart, but it's hard to recall another collection of essays, or a memoir, with more natural charm.”
— The Los Angeles Times

Product Details ISBN-10: 0399155287
ISBN-13: 9780399155284
Published: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 03/01/2009
Pages: 224
Language: English