Things You've Inherited from Your Mother (Nunatak), by Hollie Adams
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Things You've Inherited from Your Mother (Nunatak), by Hollie Adams
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Everyone deals with grief in their own personal way. Take Carrie, for example. Getting over her mother's death from ovarian cancer takes the form of ramping up passive-aggressive office warfare, continuing her campaign to show her ex-husband she's over him (further increasing the distance between herself and her teenage daughter, natch), ridding herself of her mother's overweight cat Poncho, and consuming heroic quantities of red wine, spiked coffee and coffin nails. Nobody's perfect.
Situated at the midpoint between the booze-soaked mayhem of Absolutely Fabulous and the middle-aged ennui of Anakana Schofield's Malarky, Things You've Inherited From Your Mother is a riotous assemblage of found objects, Choose Your Own Adventure-style in jokes and useful facts about mice. In her startlingly funny first novel, Hollie Adams takes the conventional wisdom about likeable literary heroines and shoves it down an elevator shaft.
Things You've Inherited from Your Mother (Nunatak), by Hollie Adams- Amazon Sales Rank: #4976263 in Books
- Brand: Adams, Hollie
- Published on: 2015-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 5.25" w x .50" l, .55 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 168 pages
About the Author Hollie Adams was born in Windsor, Ontario and now lives in Calgary, where she is pursuing her Ph.D. in English. She has been published in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Filling Station and The Windsor Review, and was a finalist for the Broken Social Scene story contest put on by House of Anansi in 2013.Things You've Inherited From Your Mother is her first novel.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Very funny, very sharp By JL This book is a quick read, but that's only if you don't stop to laugh every three or four sentences. Hollie Adams is extremely funny.It's a coming of age book told in the 2nd person (sort of like Choose Your Own Adventure books, but literary, and you make no choices). I would call the humour not slap-stick but hipster haha. There are tons are sharp jokes, a few puns, and sometimes just straight up wit.Take this book to the beach this summer. But hold on tight to your cold beverage cause you will be laughing lots. That's not to say that this book doesn't have a heart: the laughs, not to spoil anything, are covering up for heavy things like growing up, and losing a parent.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Mother Loss and Others: A Combination Mix of Grief and Humor.... By missmickee/bookreview In time for Mother's Day, a funny quick read novel authored by Hollie Adams "Things You've Inherited From Your Mother", a divorced young mother is coping with grief of her own mothers death in a zany and upbeat way, humor. Many thanks and appreciation to NeWest Press for the ARC for the purpose this review.Carrie contemplates writing a self-help book, though "self-help books lie", as she fondly recalls gift books of the genre from her Mom. Poncho, her mothers fussy fat cat, moved in with Carrie and her daughter Kate, after her sister Izzy decided she couldn't take Poncho. The novel progresses in a monologue style of her mothers wake, attending the service with her boyfriend Ben, and accepting condolences from her former husband Jerry. There were many eyebrows raised over the skin tight leather skirt she wore, as Poncho peed on the clothes Izzy selected for Carrie to wear to the wake.Carrie's problems are only beginning, after her allotted 2 day grieving time, she returns to work (late of course) to a surprising turn of events. Carrie needs to avoid ordering overpriced lattes to soothe her soul, and get into shape... encountering Jerry with his cute new girlfriend at the health club doesn't help her feel any better, though some of her observations are hilarious.I love the original vintage-like cover of this book! At times some of the humor seemed forced or over emphasized, the monologue was easier to follow as the story ideas progressed. Hollie Adams work has been published in the Windsor Review and other notable publications. This is her first novel, she lives in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. 4.5 Snarky and Entertaining Stars By Honolulubelle “Wouldn’t human existence be exponentially easier if for every scenario, a set of words would flash before your eyes offering you just two choices? A fifty-fifty chance to do the right thing, every time.”“The priest’s eulogy contains many generic adjectives – ‘giving,’ ‘sympathetic,’ ‘selfless,’ ‘humble,’ – which probably applies to most dead people, but betray the fact that he didn’t really know your mother.”“Your mother watched Jeopardy! not because she was remotely adept at trivia but because shouting insults at Alex Trebek in the form of questions rejuvenated her spirits in a way that a brisk walk or a cup of tea might for someone more sane than she.”My Review:Hollie Adams has a dark and wicked sense of humor. Luckily, I do too - so I giggled, chortled, snorted, and laughed aloud as I read her first published missive. The protagonist (Carrie) is a snarky and wily woman whose mother has just died of cancer. You will need to keep in mind that Carrie’s social and emotional development appears to have arrested in adolescence, most likely during her surly teen years. She is a procrastinator with oppositional and passive-aggressive tendencies, so naturally, she has the expected resultant problems with authority. Carrie has to push boundaries – just because they are there, and is creatively snide and snarky in a deliciously descriptive manner – as that is just who she is. As she uniquely navigates the grieving process, we meet the various layers of her prickly personality, personal and family history, and current thought process. Her now teen-aged daughter is far more mature and responsible than Carrie is, or will ever be. She is truly an awful and selfish person – but honestly, we all are in our own heads. The imaginative narrative provided me with hilarious visuals that had me smirking and laughing aloud. Carrie is thoughtless, selfish, lazy, and cranky human being. I found her endlessly entertaining, but imagine she might be an acquired taste for others - that might need to be taken in small doses.
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