Full name: The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After

Author: Melanie Gideon Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Humor Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780307454867 030745486X

Melanie Gideon's hilarious memoir is a disarmingly honest take on marriage and motherhood by a woman who realized she was sleepwalking through life and decided she needed to do something about it. The Slippery Year chronicles her struggle to rediscover meaning and pleasure in life while navigating the comical ups and downs of cohabiting with a husband, a child, and a dog: mattress wars with her snoring mate, the psychological minefield of the school carpool line, and sending her son to sleep-away camp for the first time. Gideon manages to be laugh-out-loud funny while also reflecting beautifully and movingly on her quest to appreciate what she has. Similar books: Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Dry by Augusten Burroughs The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish Born Standing Up by Steve Martin My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler Yes Please by Amy Poehler You're Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day Si-cology 1 by Si Robertson Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick Drinking & Tweeting by Brandi Glanville Confessions of a Prairie Bitch by Alison Arngrim Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart Seriously... I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx Yes Man by Danny Wallace