SuSu sends a surprise
She sent me a book that I can’t put down and so now I am not sleeping – it’s called Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants by Jill Soloway and it is hysterical – first of all the card she sent was great – it said “When our story is told, and it will be told in song and fable and interpretive dance and puppet show, people will weep with joy, and through sobs, say, “Today we have witnessed love. How can our lives not be bettered by this?” Inside it says, “Okay, the puppet show response may not be so strong. People may not be ready for puppets.”
She says she sent the book because it is a memoir and very confident on the sexuality and (she is Jewish) so I think you will like it!
The book is a riot – it has footnotes and my favorite is footnote #12 on Page 78 “Have you ever had a penis in your mouth and thought, “What in the hell am I doing? I have a penis in my mouth!” – I almost wet my pants laughing so hard.
In the book, she talks about going to college and suddenly having a zillion new best friends – it hit home – my “Miracle Child” niece called from Suwanne where she has just started and the whole time she is talking to me “Aunt Rachel, just calling to say hi!” she is having a zillion conversations with her zillion new best friends – Hey Susie, see you at the whatever. Oh you Katie, you’re funny. Similarly, E sent her daughter K off to school and said that she flew there with her husband and her daughter wouldn’t even go to lunch with them because she was hanging out with 100 of her new best friends.