The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life

By Laurie Notaro

NEW YORK occasions BESTSELLER

“I’ve replaced a section due to the fact that highschool. again then I acknowledged no to utilizing and promoting medications. I washed on an ordinary foundation and nonetheless had reliable credit.”

Introducing Laurie Notaro, the chief of the fool women’ Action-Adventure membership. on a daily basis she fearlessly rises from mattress to defeat the evil machinations of dolts, dimwits, and creepy boyfriends—and that’s prior to she even places on a bra.

For the previous ten years, Notaro has been exciting Phoenix newspaper readers together with her wildly fun autobiographical exploits and distinctive existence studies. She writes a few global of hourly-wage jobs that require totally no abilities, a mom who fingers down judgments extra forcefully than a person seated on the perfect courtroom, awful highschool reunions, and hangovers that depart her stunned that she awakened within the first place.

The misadventures of Laurie and her fellow fool women (“too cool to be within the clever Group”) spread in an international that everybody will realize yet not anyone has ever defined so hilariously. She can provide the products: lifestyles as we know it.

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