Miss You Like Crazy Tpb - Softcover
A re-issue of the exhilarating, highly acclaimed first novel from the author of Bite the Stars.
“Maylou wanted to feel buoyant and gung ho. She wanted to feel like a grand prize winner in life's sweepstakes, but with her mama newly dead, buried under ground like a bulb that could come to pretty flower only in her mind, she thought herself destined to remain swampy and downtrodden.”
Miss You Like Crazy is a road novel belonging to Maylou Puce Turner, a young woman whose beloved mama dies'somewhat triumphantly'after winning a game of gin rummy in a steamy Florida trailer park. Suddenly alone with her distraught old daddy, Maylou embarks on a weird and wonderful odyssey to put her mama to rest and somehow get everyone back to Kansas.
Originally published in 1994, Miss You Like Crazy will be re-issued to coincide with the author's latest book, Bite the Stars. This is an exuberant and moving debut novel about the steely bond between mother and daughter, and proves without doubt that the best humor is rooted in tragedy.
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About the Author:
ELIZA CLARK'S debut novel, Miss You Like Crazy, was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and the Trillium Book Award. Her most recent novel, Bite the Stars, received wide acclaim and is under option for film. Eliza Clark works as a television producer and currently lives in Toronto.
From Kirkus Reviews:
When Maylou's mama keels over dead in a retirement trailer park in Florida, Maylou takes her grief--as ``wild as the ache of wishing for a miracle''--round trip from Topeka, Kansas, to bring her mama's ashes home. Along the way, Maylou, 26 and dazed with missing her mama, undergoes a series of zany adventures. Picking up her elderly, eccentric father, John, at the ill-fated trailer camp, she meets nosy neighbors Vern and Doris, their redneck son Bubba, Bubba's disaffected, gum-snapping wife CeCe, and Bubba and CeCe's bizarre little boy, Larry, who has adopted Maylou's childhood pet dog Oscar and keeps him alive on a diet of beetles. When Maylou and John drive off for Kansas, CeCe--unable to put up with life with Bubba and Larry a minute longer--stows away. Stopping for the night in Georgia, Maylou and John witness CeCe falling in love with a psychic named Sherman; CeCe refuses to leave, and soon Vern and Doris show up with Larry and Oscar in tow, announcing that son Bubba has unexpectedly been crushed to death by a vending machine. Maylou, unable to budge her father from his newly adopted project of translating into carvings the secret messages of trees outside Sherman's cabin, takes off by herself, detouring to Graceland before finally arriving home--where she consults a second psychic named Red Dog, buries her beloved mother's ashes in a local graveyard, and falls for Emmanuel, the graveyard flower vendor, eventually leaving her ne'er-do-well husband Zak for a life of love even her devoted mother would have been satisfied with for her. An only mildly amusing, slapdash comedy. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 000648106X
- ISBN 13 9780006481065
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages199
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