Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo?: And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Ask - Tapa blanda

"I want Jancee Dunn to make me a pie. Actually, I want to sit around and listen to her entire family argue about what type of pie. Such is the extreme charm of her world. No matter the subject, Dunn's gimlet eye for all of life's minor infractions and daily quirks is superbly addictive." --Sloane Crosley, author of I Was Told There'd be Cake

"[Jancee Dunn's] wonder, bemusement, befuddlement, and frank delight at growing into adulthood are highly entertaining... Readers who enjoy humorous memoirs infused with a healthy dose of pop culture are sure to love this book, which has the potential to be an entertaining and provocative book club choice." --Library Journal

"Genial [and] affectionately mocking...Dunn's travails will be instantly recognizable to readers in their late 30s and 40s.... Her parents are a bottomless well of comedy [and] her circle of friends is equally familiar."--Publishers Weekly

Despite her forty years and a successful career as a rock journalist, Jancee Dunn still feels like a teenager, especially around her parents and sisters. Looking around, Dunn realizes that she’s not alone in this regression: Her friends, all with successful jobs, marriages, and families of their own, still feel like kids around their moms and dads, too. That gets Dunn to thinking: Do we ever really grow up?

Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo? explores this phenomenon–through both Dunn’s coming to grips with getting older and her folks’ attempts to turn back the clock. In a series of hilarious and heartwarming essays, Dunn conspires with her sisters to finagle their way into the old family homestead, dissects the whys and wherefores of her parents’ obsession with newspaper clippings, confronts the seamy side of the JC Penney catalogs she paged through as a kid, and accompanies her sixtysomething mother to a New Jersey tattoo parlor, where Mom is giddy to get a raven inked onto her wrist. And Dunn does it all with humor and insight.